Children are the ultimate philosophers:
-Happy
-Living in the moment
-Unconditionally loving
-Don’t spend time thinking about philosophy
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Children who happen to live in a bad environment:
- Miserable
- Feel no security
- Unconditionally freightened
- Lack the tools to understand reality.
Philosophy takes reason to do. Sometimes it doesn't develop. If anything, most adults remain childish and depend on >>
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How could you know that a small child feels these things, or rather interprets his life this way? These are all conditioned responses and interpretations—which are pushed onto children by adults; they aren’t innately in them.
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I didn't doubt the points in the original tweet, so if my argument suffers from some fatal flaw (which it doesn't), the original does too. You can tell how children are feeling, so I don't understand the criticism. When my daighter cries after she falls, I know she's in pain >>
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Sure, but you're the one making the crying (a natural outlet for pain) and the pain (an inevitable feature of life) into a problem. The child feels the sensation of pain fully, cries as a natural reaction, and then moves on when the pain dissipates—no problem.
It becomes a problem when you insist it shouldn't happen. And this is when the conditioning sets in. For the child the pain is just a part of the spectrum of experience as everything else; for you it's something bad to be ridden because in our culture this is implied.