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Originally posted by giblfiz
Why is it That the tyrannous majority always invokes the protection of children in order to trample on people?
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Because much of the reason society exists in the form it does is because of children and the lack of instinctive behavior in the human animal. A quote from the The Lost World (Jurassic Park II)
Our brains more than doubled in size in about a million years. And that caused problems for us. getting born, for one thing. Big brains can't pass through the birth canal - which means that both mother and child die in childbirth. That's no good. What's the evolutionary response? To make human infants born very early in development, when their brains are still small enough to pass through the pelvis. It's the marsupial solution - most of the growth occurs outside the mother's body. A human child's brain doubles during the first year of life. That's a good solution to the problem of birth, but it creates other problems. It means that human children will be helpless long after birth. The infants of many mammals can walk minutes after they're born. Others walk in a few days, or weeks. But human infants can't walk for a full year. They can't feed themselves for even longer.
So one price of big brains was that our ancestors had to evolve new, stable social organizations to permit long-term child care, lasting many years, These big-brained, totally helpless children changed society. Being born in an immature state means that human infants have unformed brains. They don't arrive with a lot of built-in, instinctive behavior. Instinctively, a newborn infant can suck and grasp, but that's about all. Complex human behavior is not instinctive at all. So human societies had to develop education to train the brains of their children. To teach them how to act.
Every human society expends tremendous time and energy teaching its children the right way to behave. You look at a simpler society, in the rain forest somewhere, and you find that every child is born into a network of adults responsible for helping to raise the child. Not only parents, but aunts and uncles and grandparents and tribal elders. Some teach the child to hunt or gather food or weave; some teach them about sex or war. But the responsibilities are clearly defined, and if a child does not have, say, a mother's brother's sister to do a specific teaching job, the people get together and appoint a substitute. Because raising children is, in a sense, the reason the society exists in the first place. It's the most important thing that happens, and it's the culmination of all the tools and language and social structure that has evolved.
Thing is ppl who have an agenda take advantage of this and use it to their own ends "in the name of". It's gonna be interesting to see what comes of society the more relationships and families fail. PC Tyranny understands the importance of the child to society and exploits it in a way to appear as moral as possible. You can't argue with someone trying to save children now can you? The RIAA are pulling this shit as well on P2P to appeal to the uninformed by "exposing" the existence of child porn on P2P when websites doing the same have been shut down weekly for years. I hope I answered your question and didn't derail this too much.
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