Is it normal that i don't believe that children are innocent?

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For starters, I'm talking about innocence in the sense of purity, not like criminals vs. law abiding people.

Children are simply more ignorant, not more innocent. It actually annoys me when people say that they are.

What about all of the merciless bullying and teasing? Children are mean all the time! We have no problem acknowledging those things, so why do people still talk about bs like the "innocence of childhood"?

It should be the blissful ignorance of childhood if anything.

A truly innocent person, imo, is one who knows of the evils in the world, but isn't contaminated by them.

As children grow up, I believe that certain qualities which they actually possessed innately simply manifest and grow, rather than form.

Of course, people are different. The way that we grow and change is affected by our surroundings. But there are some good and bad things that are just human nature.

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  • _Mehhhh_
    6 years ago

    Children who are mean and bully usually have things going on at home. They're projecting the abuse they get from their parents off onto other kids.

    Sexually they're completely dormant and innocent. Kids only behave in a pseudo-sexual manner when sex has been introduced to them as a concept.

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    • mischieflover
      5 years ago

      no excuse to abuse or torment others, just because you've had it done to you. i never did, never would, never even thought of it because i knew what it felt like n never wanted another person to feel that.

      hate those type of kids or grown people that go on to do unto others what was done to them. selfish as fuck. and excusing it because it was done to them? no. not okay. fuck them.

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  • Ummitsme
    6 years ago

    Some of them are little fucks aren't they? Ive seen toddlers steal, be violent and rage. Ive also seen toddlers share, comfort others, etc. Much of human nature is just that, and not caused by nurture.

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  • nikkiclaire
    6 years ago

    Kids know shit.

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    • [Old Memory]
      6 years ago

      I knew shit as a child. In 2nd or 3rd grade, my mom was gently explaining the concept of suicidal people to me.

      I already knew, and was in fact, mocking her a little in my mind, because I was one one of those people.

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    • babyhazel
      6 years ago

      yah mann

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  • Dustyair
    6 years ago

    I hate kids.

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    • [Old Memory]
      6 years ago

      Why?

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  • Feyesh
    5 years ago

    If you have no way to know right from wrong, then you are truly innocent because it comes from intent.

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  • mischieflover
    5 years ago

    idk even as a toddler i was quiet. i think because i was already being raped at that age tho. so i learned very early on to be silent and not say anything. i hate what was done to me, but i do like the lessons i guess i learned from it (some lessons at least). to not speak unless talked to. to not express rage, angrer and to be silent or be punished, and eventually just doing so even without threat of punishment. to always respect your elders no matter what. idk i guess there were some good things i learned.

    most kids i see running around today are brats. the parents let them throw tamptrums n throw shit, n talk back etc. i hate breeders and lazy parents and their annoying ass spawn. shit is annoying af.

    and i def blame parents for kids that go on to bully others. raise your kids right. teach them kindness, teach them to stick up for people, teach them to not judge others that may be diff to them, teach them to respect people and authority and their elders. (my kindness i think was born from both my mother raising me right, or as best as she could all things considered, and the abuse causing me to not ever wanting anyone else to feel the way i did/do, and being born that way or at least having a shy, reserved, soft personality passed down from my mom)

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  • mischieflover
    5 years ago

    life will suck the light out of you tbh. other humans is the cause in my opinion.

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  • mischieflover
    5 years ago

    when i was a kid i do belive i was innocent (not in the untained way to sadly.i was born into sin and other such aweful things.but i do think i was innocent in terms of my intent, personality and how i treated others). surprisingly so because i was already being raped by 4 and born into a aweful family. i was also very kind for being a kid. i didnt judge others or bully and fought the bullies actually, i didnt care what their race was, body type was etc. i was kind to everyone. i guess because id have loved to have recieved that same kindness. i wasnt jaded just yet by the things i was going through. i still had hope at that age. i was literally always very shy, quiet,soft spoken. even as a toddler being told no 1-2 times was enough n i learned my lesson.. idk if it was because of the abuse that made me so submissive, im guessing it prob was.

    im 25 now and def not the same little girl i was. and im damn sure not innocent anymore either (im using it in the same manner in which you do now, im a very bitter, sad, depressed, tainted, ruined person now).

    i dont miss the abuse that was going on at that time, but i miss the sweet girl i used to be.while i still dont bully or anything like that, im not a happy person. at all. i hide it but its true. hell i dont think ive ever been happy. i guess im just incapable of hiding anything anymore..

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  • OwOWhatsThis
    6 years ago

    👌👈

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  • Ellenna
    6 years ago

    We're all born innocent and ignorant and then we learn good or bad behavior depending on our environment.

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    • [Old Memory]
      6 years ago

      So you think that people are born as a blank slate? I disagree, and instead think that good and bad are within humans innately.

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      • Alichael
        6 years ago

        They're not born with a blank slate, and it's definitely true how like with when toddlers throw a tantrum for example, they did not learn that behavior from something around them because they're too young, they do act that way due to something already inside them. However, kids growing up still can definitely be corrupted due to surroundings, whether it's from something at home, from other kids in school, or from society. That's why it's still important to raise them right, it still makes a difference in how they could turn out. It would make even more of a difference if the world was a nicer place, but we can't control that. So, in other words, some of how kids are is from something inside them, and some of it is surroundings and environment, it's some of both.

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        • [Old Memory]
          6 years ago

          Agreed, also, I'm the OP and mentioned that in the post.

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          • Alichael
            6 years ago

            Yeah. It seems like some of the commenters here are saying it's all environment, or all something within them. They need to see it like we do, it's some of each.

            Some people do like to battle heredity vs. environment. Hey, that reminds me of the film Trading places.

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  • JellyBeanBandit
    6 years ago

    That's a really good point.

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