It\u2019s not worse. It\u2019s not better. It\u2019s wrong.<\/p>\n
I always feel uncomfortable when people think that dead kids is the \u201cworst of evil\u201d<\/em>. There\u2019s no gradient in death, it\u2019s sad in every case.<\/p>\n We think that a 50 year old man killed randomly by a shooter is less of a big deal because he\u2019s in the middle of his life but what if he was about to enjoy the best 20 years of his life after working hard for it? On the opposite what if the kid killed was going to ruin some people\u2019s lives by drunk driving, hitting a family van? We\u2019ll never know. It ended abruptly and all we have are our eyes to cry.<\/p>\n My cold ass orphan past probably makes me think this way but I never really considered kids as kids but as small adults. I don\u2019t forget that they understand things, even if they can\u2019t express them through language. I don\u2019t forget that in some countries right now, some are soldiers and trained to kill people, or that in some culture kids have sex very early on<\/a> or watch it<\/a>. It weirds me out too but you can understand how this is possible if you don\u2019t treat kids as little pure and cute things that they aren\u2019t, sorry to hurt you Western normative culture. They are small adults with shitty experience and that\u2019s why we need to nurture them, not because they\u2019re virtually perfect, adorable little miniature of oneself. After four or five years on this planet, they are not.<\/p>\n I especially don\u2019t like how people realize that children dying from bullets is a terrible thing when as Jezebel notes<\/a>, \u201cblack children accounted for forty-five percent of all child gun deaths in the United States, despite being only fifteen percent of the child population.\u201d<\/em> Please read the report<\/a> and think of things like \u201cBetween 1979 and 2009, gun deaths among white children decreased by 44 percent and increased by 30 percent among black children over the same period.\u201d<\/em> <\/p>\n Nobody gave\/gives a shit. No one cares, it\u2019s like black people are not part of society. But a tragedy happens and the nation\u2019s emotional attachment to it is strong enough that it might change things. I hope.<\/p>\n Too bad all these dead black kids never had any impact on gun laws. I feel sorry because if they had, a lot of children include those white kids from Newton could be alive today.<\/p>\n So much for preventing the \u201cworst of evil\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s not worse. It\u2019s not better. It\u2019s wrong. I always feel uncomfortable when people think that dead kids is the \u201cworst of evil\u201d. There\u2019s no gradient in death, it\u2019s sad in every case. We think that a 50 year old man killed randomly by a shooter is less of a big deal because he\u2019s in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}