Why was an 8-year old playing with unrelated 14-year olds?
Definitely the no. 1 takeaway from this for rational people. "Don't let your kids play with the big kids or they might get lynched". Thanks for the quality post, bro.
No, but there is a huge difference between an 8-year old and a 14-year old. Letting young children play unsupervised with much older, bigger teenagers who are not family members is dangerous, not because they might get lynched, but because they could be physically or emotionally abused in other ways by the older children, or participate in activities unsuitable for their age.
Finally you said something right.
Maybe when I was fourteen years old I could be trusted with an eight-year-old child, but I at least was brought up with some principles and some fear that if I did something wrong I would face severe consequences.
The typical fourteen-year-old has the intellectual and moral development of an adult with an IQ of 70 -- someone borderline-retarded. It is well worth remembering that the oldest moral codes are made for children and morons to accept at face value and for above-average adults to judge and interpret.
