Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Sep 30
th, 2019 at 2:02pm:
goosecat wrote on Sep 30
th, 2019 at 2:00pm:
Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Sep 30
th, 2019 at 12:55pm:
goosecat wrote on Sep 30
th, 2019 at 12:51pm:
Liberal Dichotomy
Attacking a teenager on perceived mental illnesses isn't criticism.
Very true,
Just as well most are not criticising her for anything of the kind, rather the adults using her.
Most criticisms of herself seem to be reasonable ones regarding the same things affecting most 16 year old kids. They think they know, but in reality, like all teenagers, have no real concepts yet of the worlds functioning systems.
Hence the meme
Weird, I see Bolt et al going after an autistic, depressied mentally ill child.
Hmm, well I guess it depends on the narrative you want to believe. I don't see that at all. I see another enraged, stressed, entitled, teenager other adults, including her parents and the teen herself, deemed capable of taking to the world stage to make demands.
I think the health narrative is equally being attempted to be used by both "sides", including using it as a defence mechanism.
I've just recently spent a weekend with some of the apparent brightest 10 and 11 year old minds in the country, those that will go on to make genuine leadership contributions to the societal directions of the future. I can assure you, the approach to any and all attempts to demand and state positions regarding pretty much anything, by teachers and professors (they place these young minds in a university environment) is to question it. Research it and consider opposing positions/evidence, then having done that, go forth and state your position only after step 1. The basic " First seek to understand, then seek to be understood" catch-cry.
A child's mind can only fully develop and make well judged decisions and take well evaluated positions in adulthood if they have been challenged at the correct levels to research and fully understand, as well as they can, all angles and ramifications of various subject matter along the development pathway.
Being a child, does not remove the worlds ability to hold them accountable for their positions. If they steal they are accountable, if they lie they are accountable, if they knowingly injure or hurt another they are accountable, if they tell a parent to go get "..." they are accountable.
If they jump on stage making demands of the world; they are accountable.
It is not black and white however. The level to which they are held accountable is the defining line. Accountable they are, but are they accountable to the same levels as a fully formed adult? The answer should obviously be no.
I don't believe questioning this child's true knowledge of what's going on is unreasonable. It may even be the best possible thing for her, to realise there are things in play she has not even considered, nor has even a basic genuine concept of most likely.
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