Title : The moment you realize that little genius of yours is a psychopath.
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The moment you realize that little genius of yours is a psychopath.
Some parent writes to the advice columnist at Slate:Well, J likes to play with a train set, and after dinner, I was playing with J, and I thought to try out the trolley problem. We got some Lego figures, put them on the tracks, and I told J that the train was going to hit these five people, but J could switch tracks if J is willing to have the other person crushed. J looked at me, then at the tracks, and then very seriously picked up the lone figure and put it on the track with the other five. Then J took the train, ran over all six of them, turned to me, and said, very seriously, “it was a bad accident.”
I'm just kidding. I don't think the kid is a psychopath. I think he's taking his cue from Mother. She set up the carnage. It was a carnage-setting-up game. It's not like young people in a college philosophy class, where they've all be cued to step up to the highest level of morality or to choose between morality and pragmatism and then talk about why. You might just as well suspect your child of psychopathy because after he builds a tall building out of blocks he takes his toy airplane and crashes into it, like a 9/11 terrorists, though only you know about the 9/11 terrorists. He's never heard of such a thing. Unless you've cruelly burdened him with such knowledge. What is he, 3?
Okay, let's see what Slate's advice-giver has to say:
I don’t know what kind of conversations you all have had about the permanence of death just yet, but it is entirely possible that a 3-year-old wouldn’t understand the seriousness of this scenario. Furthermore, I don’t know exactly what you were trying to accomplish by asking such a young child to ponder a difficult moral quandary that adults have been debating for years....
Oh, I think I know what Mom/Dad was trying to accomplish: My child is a very special little man. Here's a way to marvel at his perspicacity.
I can imagine myself doing the same thing, setting up the trolley problem with the Legos. But what would I do, if I'd gotten that far, and my child had moved the sixth figure over to the killing position and said "it was a bad accident"? My first thought would be to pick up that sixth figure and say, Oh, but I loved this person!
ADDED: I hesitate to go with my "first thought," because what would the child do next, point at the other 5 and say "I suppose you hated these people. Why do you hate people so much and involve me in this grisly scenario?"
Well, J likes to play with a train set, and after dinner, I was playing with J, and I thought to try out the trolley problem. We got some Lego figures, put them on the tracks, and I told J that the train was going to hit these five people, but J could switch tracks if J is willing to have the other person crushed. J looked at me, then at the tracks, and then very seriously picked up the lone figure and put it on the track with the other five. Then J took the train, ran over all six of them, turned to me, and said, very seriously, “it was a bad accident.”
I'm just kidding. I don't think the kid is a psychopath. I think he's taking his cue from Mother. She set up the carnage. It was a carnage-setting-up game. It's not like young people in a college philosophy class, where they've all be cued to step up to the highest level of morality or to choose between morality and pragmatism and then talk about why. You might just as well suspect your child of psychopathy because after he builds a tall building out of blocks he takes his toy airplane and crashes into it, like a 9/11 terrorists, though only you know about the 9/11 terrorists. He's never heard of such a thing. Unless you've cruelly burdened him with such knowledge. What is he, 3?
Okay, let's see what Slate's advice-giver has to say:
I don’t know what kind of conversations you all have had about the permanence of death just yet, but it is entirely possible that a 3-year-old wouldn’t understand the seriousness of this scenario. Furthermore, I don’t know exactly what you were trying to accomplish by asking such a young child to ponder a difficult moral quandary that adults have been debating for years....
Oh, I think I know what Mom/Dad was trying to accomplish: My child is a very special little man. Here's a way to marvel at his perspicacity.
I can imagine myself doing the same thing, setting up the trolley problem with the Legos. But what would I do, if I'd gotten that far, and my child had moved the sixth figure over to the killing position and said "it was a bad accident"? My first thought would be to pick up that sixth figure and say, Oh, but I loved this person!
ADDED: I hesitate to go with my "first thought," because what would the child do next, point at the other 5 and say "I suppose you hated these people. Why do you hate people so much and involve me in this grisly scenario?"
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