Children at Skadi

[Dr. Solar Wolff]

A person should be careful when talking to children. Some things should not be said the same way as if you were talking to an adult. I just found out that I am guilty of this as Ogmios22188, with whom I was very direct, turns out to be 16 years old (and now banned).

My suggestion is that people under 18 always be identified with their age so that this problem and the problem of suggestive comments to underage girls, would be eliminated.

[Jack]

A person should be careful when talking to children. Some things should not be said the same way as if you were talking to an adult. I just found out that I am guilty of this as Ogmios22188, with whom I was very direct, turns out to be 16 years old (and now banned).

My suggestion is that people under 18 always be identified with their age so that this problem and the problem of suggestive comments to underage girls, would be eliminated.

I definetly agree with Dr. Solar Wolff, this could pose a problem at some point if it's not resolved Though I could concievably be criticized as being a hypocrite for my constant suggestive comments to Rach But she approves anyway And there's only two year's age difference, which makes it legally and socially acceptable in both of our countries (as far as I'm aware).

[Verslingen]

Phew I thought it was bad to sit and write with one of my brood on my knee...


hheehehhe

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[Abby Normal]

How's abou' we stop making 'suggestive comments' on the Internet altogether? Let's get to the root of this problem!

I am almost eighteen, but I am obviously more intelligent than the average person my age (or the average person of 'legal age', for that matter); I don't necessarily want to be identified by my age on this forum or any other because I have seen the following happen several times: my points hold up for decent argumentation with an individual until they learn my age, at which point they start to make comments like "oh, what do you know, you're a stupid teenager!"

And there's only two year's age difference, which makes it legally and socially acceptable in both of our countries (as far as I'm aware).

Legally acceptable? I'm not sure -- my boyfriend was two years younger than I, and I was under the impression that I would have been a criminal had I been eighteen!

[Thorburn]

my points hold up for decent argumentation with an individual until they learn my age, at which point they start to make comments like "oh, what do you know, you're a stupid teenager!"

Called Circumstantial Argumentum ad Hominem and fallacious. It only discredits the person that makes it i. m. h. o.

[Gorm the Old]

Abby, this is a point which I have been trying to make on this forum without outstanding success. We are individuals; we are NOT units of some social or ethnic entity. I have, indeed, known teenagers who are stupid, obtuse, clueless, and shallow and for whom I hold little hope. I also know some teenagers whom , except for experience and education, I consider to be my intellectual equals and with whom I can deal on a basis of equality. I even once knew a teenager whose intellect I considered quite possibly superior to my own (and I have an IQ of 180) . Unfortunately, he saw too clearly but understood too little. He shot himself at 17. Some young people (Do we really have any children here ?) do not belong on Skadi. They are incapable intellectually or emotionally of dealing with the ideas to which thjey are likely to be exposed here. They don't belong in the adult world yet. Not because they are UNITS of an age group, but because they are immature individuals. You sound like a mature individual and, if you hadn't identified yourself as a teenager, there is no way that I could have guessed it.

[Grimr]

A person should be careful when talking to children. Some things should not be said the same way as if you were talking to an adult. I just found out that I am guilty of this as Ogmios22188, with whom I was very direct, turns out to be 16 years old (and now banned).

This is highly disconcerting Ogmios22188 is one year older than me and you regard him as a child.

We are individuals; we are NOT units of some social or ethnic entity.

Read the "selfish gene".

I have, indeed, known teenagers who are stupid, obtuse, clueless, and shallow and for whom I hold little hope. I also know some teenagers whom , except for experience and education, I consider to be my intellectual equals and with whom I can deal on a basis of equality.

First of all you say "We are individuals; we are NOT units of some social or ethnic entity.", and then you do lots of generalising.

I even once knew a teenager whose intellect I considered quite possibly superior to my own (and I have an IQ of 180) .

IQ is the poor man's sign of intellect.

Unfortunately, he saw too clearly but understood too little. He shot himself at 17. Some young people (Do we really have any children here ?) do not belong on Skadi. They are incapable intellectually or emotionally of dealing with the ideas to which thjey are likely to be exposed here.

Again this statement is in paradox with your first paragraph! I am beginning to think you are incapable intellectually or emotionally of dealing with your own complex ideas.

They don't belong in the adult world yet. Not because they are UNITS of an age group, but because they are immature individuals.

There are no parameters on maturity because such a thing is an illusion.

[Dr. Solar Wolff]

How would any of you feel if someone said something inappropriate to one of your children? Inappropriate means anything remotely sexual or anything which would hurt their feelings in any way. I don't care if adults are pissed off at me. Sometimes, I don't care if children are pissed at me. I don't like to hurt people's feelings, however, and that is 1000000 times more true for young and impressionable people.

[Jack]

I definetly agree with Dr. Solar Wolff, this could pose a problem at some point if it's not resolved Though I could concievably be criticized as being a hypocrite for my constant suggestive comments to Rach But she approves anyway And there's only two year's age difference, which makes it legally and socially acceptable in both of our countries (as far as I'm aware).

It's not racially acceptable, though.

I'm a post-structuralist now The white race is a social construct and I've assimilated Rach into it. Perfectly legit now

Some young people (Do we really have any children here ?) do not belong on Skadi.

If you consider those under 21 as children, then myself, Abby Normal, and Rach (ahem ) are children. Abby and I are 18, Rach is 16. Rach is also my turf

[Vlad Cletus]

This is a whole new way to look at regulations. I myself am not 18 yet.

I wonder what the youngest age recorded on this forum is, so far?