For the umpteenth time, feral children are not innocent!

It’s an old topic here:

What worries me about feral children (not a new topic here) is society’s refusal to recognize their existence and deal with them honestly. This denial often takes the form of a bizarre belief that being of a certain age conveys “innocence,” even though anyone with an ounce of common sense who has seen such monsters knows full well that they are the antithesis of innocence.

Sooner or later, someone who is carrying concealed is going to be attacked by such a mob, and will be forced to defend himself. No one wants to be portrayed as having shot innocent “children,” but I don’t see any way to prevent it from happening.

For an unforgettable example of what such a “child” can do, a 12 year old (who happened to be 6’2″ tall) shot and killed a 24 year old woman who was sitting in her car. When I blogged about this, I was taken to task by commenters who made an unsubstantiated claim that the victim was a “stripper.” How that justified her death at the hands of a 12 year old gunman, I don’t know. The point is, some of the monsters we call “children” can be a lot more dangerous than adults.

I have long believed that the claim that children are innocent is one of the most evil and obnoxious lies in supposedly polite and civilized society. I learned better at the ripe old age of two. Somehow, I have managed to put up with sickening moralistic cant about the innocence of children for these past 55 years, and I am sure I will have to listen to it for the rest of my life, for society loves to comfort itself with such myths.

But I repeat myself:

One of the few things which triggers genuine feeling of sickness in me is to hear some lamebrain prattling about the “innocence” of children. Innocent hell! They’re as “innocent” as cheetahs.

The paradox is that cheetahs are in fact innocent by human standards. They cannot form a criminal mindset, and morality does not apply to them. So I wasn’t being fair to compare feral children to cheetahs.

I guess I was reminded of all of this because we are supposed to be in the middle of another one of this twisted society’s teaching moments.

Spare me. I learned what I needed to know a long time ago.


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12 responses to “For the umpteenth time, feral children are not innocent!”

  1. Scott M Avatar
    Scott M

    This widespread belief is an artifact of the emotional “thinking” promoted by movies and the feminized culture. Nobody has to teach a child, any child, to lie or cheat.

    You can do yourself a favor by doing whatever is necessary to avoid daily media. There is nothing there you need to know about, except maybe a tornado warning. First reports are innacurate and everyone’s agenda overrides the facts.

    Read books, watch CSPAN, and wait for people with specialized interests to dig up the facts and put it in context. Will you really be harmed if you aren’t the first person in your group to hear some rumor? Will you be better prepared for life if what you know is accurate or fast?

    Most of the news is trivia and the non-trivia is surrounded by “we only have 15 seconds until break.”

    If you pour the media’s chamber pot over your head you deserve no respect. Don’t take their output more serious than they.

  2. Sarah Avatar
    Sarah

    You are preaching to the choir as far as I’m concerned. My kids are now 17 and 20, and are surprisingly warm, human and fun to be around, BUT to get them there took a ton of work, the sacrifice of most of my career-time, and yes, discipline (which as soon as they were old enough to care i.e. around 2 consisted of taking away their computer power cords for more or less time. Honestly, honestly, the worst thing we’re doing to our kids is having them raised by strangers. This has been tried many times in human history. The result is ALWAYS civilizational collapse. It’s impossible for the most engaged stranger to be more connected to the kid than the most lax of parents (Exceptions made for feral parents & mentally ill ones. And in “parent” and not stranger I include adoptive parents, of course. What I mean by strangers are people for whom raising your kid is a job.)

  3. Deb Avatar
    Deb

    To reply to Sarah’s point that “the worst thing we’re doing to our kids is having them be raised by strangers”: I agree whole-heartedly. I think there is some response to that in the growing number of homeschooling parents who are bound to find out (as I did) that being around one’s kids all the time can be difficult, but more than that it is _fun_. You get to know them as individuals and they get to know you too. I hear others complain about how difficult it is to get their teenagers to talk to them, my difficulty is the reverse.

  4. rhhardin Avatar

    God makes children small and weak to limit the damage they can do.

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  6. John the River Avatar

    Tell me again, what was the point of “Lord of the Flies”?

    I’ve known young boy that was a perfect monster at five, by twenty-one turned out acceptable, I credit the father (a Marine).
    One kid, his parents the most civilized people I’ve ever known, was a sweet child and grew up to be a terrific young man (works too hard though).
    I have a cousin, mother (my aunt) was the family tramp, the kid was evil to start with and only got worse. In prison last I heard.
    I seen enough to decide that there is no predicting, no one formula or approach,except if no one tries at all the results are usually bad.

  7. Themistocles Avatar

    Do a search for: “Kigali, child soldiers”.

    Children as young as nine or ten are used as soldiers extensively in Africa. They are called kigali, and they are vicious, heartless killers with much less fear than adults have.

    Children must be civilized, or they will become wild hyenas. Unfortunately, society does not civilize children any more. No teaching of civics, or morality, or the ten commandments, etc.

    The government protects their ‘right’ to get away with robbery, murder and mayhem as long as the putative ‘victims of society’ are under 18.

    See, society is to blame. Everyone and everything else is to blame now. The perps, from Obama and Holder on down to our very own kigali universally blame others. There is no more shame, and no personal responsibility.

  8. Gringo Avatar
    Gringo

    I taught one year in a “low income” middle school. Discipline was a problem, especially for me. More wannbe ferals than actual ferals, though.

    The principal had a good point of calling the students “children” – which they were. If you lose track of the fact that you are the adult and they are children, all is lost.

  9. bobby b Avatar
    bobby b

    I don’t know that there’s any presumption of “innocence” attached to children. I’ve encountered kids who perfectly embodied the entire concept of evil, and everyone involved has recognized them as such.

    What we do presume about kids in our society is that they’re too inexperienced and immature to understand the consequences of many of the evil things they do, and so we work very hard at correcting them and we try to minimize the punishment aspect.

    Just as we don’t punish unintentional bad conduct nearly as strictly as we do intentional bad conduct, we don’t give minors the full adult treatment in juvenile criminal court. Their muddled, unformed, hormone-addled brains don’t give them that automatic internal check that makes you stop and think “is there some good reason why I shouldn’t break this store window?”

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