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XemaSab

(60,212 posts)
9. So they respect their kids so much
Thu Jan 17, 2013, 06:50 AM
Jan 2013

they allow them to wander into the fire?

No, sorry, that's just shitty parenting, whatever your culture.

Under that same logic, a woman who's fucked up on dope and lets her 4-yo cook her own macaroni is just letting the kid do what she wants.

It's especially reprehensible if it leaves legit scars. Like I "burn" myself while cooking about twice a year, and I have 0 burn scars because by the time I started cooking my own food, I was old enough to not put my hand down on the burner, or set my clothes on fire, or put my hand in the boiling water.

Jared Diamond is a toolbag made of other, smaller toolbags.

this strikes me as "noble savage" garbage cali Jan 2013 #1
By and large tama Jan 2013 #4
well, aside from the fact that your run on sentence is rather garbled, so what? cali Jan 2013 #7
Exactly what "slew of ills" do h-g societies host ... ananda Jan 2013 #42
If you ask top of hierarchy tama Jan 2013 #46
"noble savage" meets "indigo child" Quantess Jan 2013 #14
Human behaivior is about 98% predictable galileoreloaded Jan 2013 #49
Freedom and responsibility tama Jan 2013 #2
fuck those child labor laws. cali Jan 2013 #3
I get very well tama Jan 2013 #6
Can you answer my questions? Do you think we should get rid of all laws protecting children? cali Jan 2013 #8
I don't think you should ask loaded rhetorical questions and then demand an answer. Bucky Jan 2013 #11
oy, nothing rhetorical about the questions I posed. cali Jan 2013 #16
Yes tama Jan 2013 #13
That's not the way humans organize themselves once a certain population threshold is reached Fumesucker Jan 2013 #15
That's not a valid statement tama Jan 2013 #19
ironic. hunter/gatherer societies have hardly been an evolutionary success cali Jan 2013 #20
Hunter gatherer societies have a far longer track record than agrarian ones Fumesucker Jan 2013 #24
Of course not tama Jan 2013 #26
Your point is not in conflict with my own Fumesucker Jan 2013 #21
Which threshold? tama Jan 2013 #28
Evidently the threshold is below that of the population of every significant nation on the planet Fumesucker Jan 2013 #31
50 million? tama Jan 2013 #33
That population threshold being two people. N/T Chathamization Jan 2013 #40
thanks for answering. cali Jan 2013 #17
Talking about rape tama Jan 2013 #22
so where do you live? And what the fuck do YOU know about my way of life, dear? cali Jan 2013 #25
Not much tama Jan 2013 #30
lol. I live in the rural Northeast Kingdom of Vermont and cali Jan 2013 #41
Somehow tama Jan 2013 #44
And my brother shot me in the leg and head blueamy66 Jan 2013 #37
How about a happy medium? blueamy66 Jan 2013 #36
And I bet they keep their bow and arrows unloaded with trigger locks when not in use. Nuclear Unicorn Jan 2013 #5
LOL tama Jan 2013 #12
hate to break this to you, but that's hierarchical. and you sound approving of it. cali Jan 2013 #18
Yeah, whatever tama Jan 2013 #23
So they respect their kids so much XemaSab Jan 2013 #9
! xchrom Jan 2013 #10
I don't think it's the protecting Shankapotomus Jan 2013 #27
It seems to me that each generation in our society Downwinder Jan 2013 #29
American apples v. Hunter Gatherer oranges demwing Jan 2013 #32
Fruitsalad tama Jan 2013 #34
"Better"? Jesus Christ. Brickbat Jan 2013 #35
Better, no. Different, yes Marrah_G Jan 2013 #38
I think r/K selection is facinating stuff, and Guns, Grems, and Steel was brilliant n/t galileoreloaded Jan 2013 #39
I agree with Cali, noble savage BS. Odin2005 Jan 2013 #43
I agree with the "noble savage" comments gollygee Jan 2013 #45
I kept waiting to hear the better part... Johonny Jan 2013 #47
It's impossible to say. Small, traditionally organized quasi-communal tribes are so different Zorra Jan 2013 #48
Thanks tama Jan 2013 #51
I would not call this "noble savage garbage" cthulu2016 Jan 2013 #50
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