I can understand people who don't personally want to have children. I can't understand people who have contempt for children, and (typically) contempt for the human legacy they make salient. It's a scary thing when a person's self-loathing is too big to fit their own skin alone
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Replying to @webdevMason
I was going to say I'd never met anyone who had contempt for children. But when I thought about it, some of the teachers in the schools I went to may have. So maybe adults who feel this way hide it from other adults...
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Replying to @paulg
I think it may be a generational thing. It was already a pretty common sentiment when I was in college — and I went to a midwestern state school. Pairs well with the belief that human beings are toxic to the planet, or that human civilization is a fundamentally rapacious endeavor
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Replying to @webdevMason @paulg
Teachers too, I'm sure, although I think that's an even darker thing: if you find yourself wrapped up in constraints that force you to control, mistreat, and neglect other people, it becomes very useful to think of them as bad, even disgusting
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Replying to @josephwrainey @paulg
Nobody really gets this — it's the third rail for *everyone* — but teachers *are* part-time substitute parents. During the school year, kids are spending about a third of their waking hours in the care of these people. They have no choice but to try to trust them & please them.
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Very young kids, especially, will do like Harry Harlow's poor baby monkeys: they'll try to weather out the consequences for whatever it is they've done wrong, and then they'll try desperately to "fix it," if they can. You really have to break a kid to stop getting this behavior.pic.twitter.com/45Y3xIV7W1
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