Thursday, April 27, 2006
Animal instinct
# Yesterday my 6 year nephew pokes his new born baby brother's head with a pencil.
# My elder sister, when we were young hits me with a sickle (i wasnt injured coz it was blunt one).
# I push my younger sister down from an attic when i was 12.
No we are not a family of retards - thats not the point im trying to make.
# when i was in nursery school, a classmate of mine cuts the scalp of guy sitting next to him.
# when the teacher enquiring him about what just happened (the stupid teacher didnt take the blade away from this guy) he demo's it on the girl sitting on the other side!!
So you see its not just my family... the point is kids hurt themselves/other arround them because they dont know what they are doing or they are dumb? well, thats partly the reason. Mallu and myself came up, sometime ago with this theory that kids are evil by nature and have animal instincts that go away with proper training and environment. So bringing up children is more like taming wild animals (not that i have much experience in this domian). For example, the whole family sat with my nephew and made him understand how it hurts the baby when he pokes a pencil in its head and how it would hurt if someone else did it to him - all part of domesticating him.
It takes a lot of brainwashing in forms of education, religion, social setup, moral fear, proper upbrining to domesticate a kid. Domestication teaches you to supress your animal instincts, it keeps (almost) every horny man from jumping on the first women he finds (thats what my dog would do. actually its a natural thing to do. every animal's mission on earth is to reproduce).
Is is this whole domestication stuff good? Utilitarianism (= Max good * Max no of people * Max amount of time) says yes. i think its nice to have a controlled wild side (which we all have anyways).
# My elder sister, when we were young hits me with a sickle (i wasnt injured coz it was blunt one).
# I push my younger sister down from an attic when i was 12.
No we are not a family of retards - thats not the point im trying to make.
# when i was in nursery school, a classmate of mine cuts the scalp of guy sitting next to him.
# when the teacher enquiring him about what just happened (the stupid teacher didnt take the blade away from this guy) he demo's it on the girl sitting on the other side!!
So you see its not just my family... the point is kids hurt themselves/other arround them because they dont know what they are doing or they are dumb? well, thats partly the reason. Mallu and myself came up, sometime ago with this theory that kids are evil by nature and have animal instincts that go away with proper training and environment. So bringing up children is more like taming wild animals (not that i have much experience in this domian). For example, the whole family sat with my nephew and made him understand how it hurts the baby when he pokes a pencil in its head and how it would hurt if someone else did it to him - all part of domesticating him.
It takes a lot of brainwashing in forms of education, religion, social setup, moral fear, proper upbrining to domesticate a kid. Domestication teaches you to supress your animal instincts, it keeps (almost) every horny man from jumping on the first women he finds (thats what my dog would do. actually its a natural thing to do. every animal's mission on earth is to reproduce).
Is is this whole domestication stuff good? Utilitarianism (= Max good * Max no of people * Max amount of time) says yes. i think its nice to have a controlled wild side (which we all have anyways).
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As kids we are all animals, I had pushed by brother down the stairs when i was 4 and he was just an year old.I'm to the date not sure as to why i did that.When i think about it today it makes me very guilty coz i don't think i'm capable of doing that kind of stuff.Anyways we are all domisticated now....and then are we ;-)
Awww...thats shocking!. U told me that u'r nephew had done it to himself few months ago, but how cld he do that to a baby who is just a month or so, that really freaks me.
I am sure u'r nephew wld be a different guy when he grows up. I was just reading 'The Tipping Point' & here is what the author says, "A child is better off in a good neighborhood & a troubled family than he or she is in a troubled neighborhood & a good family". I agree with what the author has said, as we spend most of our times outside our homes & the kind of ppl we hang around influences our thot process & may b at times even our actions to a certain extent.
Now I know who is the real psycho, I shld be remixing Eminem's song like 'Will the REAL PSYCHO please stand up....please stand up.';)
I am sure u'r nephew wld be a different guy when he grows up. I was just reading 'The Tipping Point' & here is what the author says, "A child is better off in a good neighborhood & a troubled family than he or she is in a troubled neighborhood & a good family". I agree with what the author has said, as we spend most of our times outside our homes & the kind of ppl we hang around influences our thot process & may b at times even our actions to a certain extent.
Now I know who is the real psycho, I shld be remixing Eminem's song like 'Will the REAL PSYCHO please stand up....please stand up.';)
More instances (this time animal abuse!):
# As a kid, I enjoyed stoning frogs (How evil!!)
# My nephew tortures my dog-24/7. It includes,
Twisting his ears, staming his legs, standing on him - all this even when he sleeping. To him its all part of the play.
# A week ago i saw my nephew had lifted brick sized stone over his head and was abou to drop it on the dog. If i hadnt interfered, the kid would have dropped the stone on himself (he was hardly able to lift it) or the dog (althought there was a good chance that neo, with his quick reflxes would have escaped).
how come its just malhar and me how have noticed/experienced this "animal instinct" in kids
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# As a kid, I enjoyed stoning frogs (How evil!!)
# My nephew tortures my dog-24/7. It includes,
Twisting his ears, staming his legs, standing on him - all this even when he sleeping. To him its all part of the play.
# A week ago i saw my nephew had lifted brick sized stone over his head and was abou to drop it on the dog. If i hadnt interfered, the kid would have dropped the stone on himself (he was hardly able to lift it) or the dog (althought there was a good chance that neo, with his quick reflxes would have escaped).
how come its just malhar and me how have noticed/experienced this "animal instinct" in kids
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