Jan 23 2009
Raising Children Can Be Enough to Make You Put a Spoon in Your Eye and Swirl It Around
My kid doesn’t get it. I’m not trying to help him learn empathy or anything either, but he’s not getting how it works. Our whole system of justice is based around the idea that something is not ok to do if it infringes on someone else’s freedom in anyway. In other words, if you don’t want someone to do it to you, don’t do it to them. It’s the Golden Rule but without the Elizabethan English. Why my 5 year old isn’t catching on to this concept is beyond me. It’s as simple as learning how to count, and much simpler than learning to read, but there are even adults who never caught on. If you can’t stop hurting people, you get put in a place where you’re not with them to hurt them anymore. Don’t be stupid! Just don’t hurt other people! My son will eventually get it, but it astounds me that there are grownups who will never get it.
