I think I will. While telling them how we got to this place. Explain that they must question everything and think for themselves. Tell them that freedom is never free.
They are 11 & 9. What are your thoughts?
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I have. More than once. It's traumatic. I don't blame you for taking that stance.
The down voters don't have children and don't remember what it was like to be one.
Sacrificing our children in any way - their innocence, their health, their peace - does not serve our cause now or in future.
Kids can learn morality and can understand the importance of justice without witnessing executions. I did.
TV violence is blunted. Seeing someone die for real on TV is harder. It's much worse to see it happen in real life.
You got an up vote from me.
I feel you on the explaining stuff you wish you didn't have to.
Yes we’ve been watching people die for the last two years while they are rioting in the streets. We’ve been live streaming people dying for years. Maybe it’s not the same when you’re right there, but we’ve been watching people getting the crap beat out of them, stabbed, shot, run over by cars, better desperate two by fours, drug by cars in the streets. There’s been so many senseless murders on the name of politics. I would be more than happy to see somebody die who deserves it for the crimes they have committed.
The point is… Is that children have been watching people dying live stream, on the Internet, for the last two years. It’s happening already. At least if it was due to a punishment instead of a senseless killing, it may make more sense to a child. Kids need to know that there are consequences to your actions. The problem is people don’t have consequences anymore because they’re all some type of protected class. Kids definitely need to learn that if somebody murder somebody, and they get the death penalty, that’s OK. That’s the consequences to a persons actions. I’m pretty sure most of the kids in America currently have seen at least one person die live on TV, on a lifestream, on the news, etc. I don’t have kids at this point in time mine are full grown. I would really have to think about it. But I would rather have them see something like that with me explaining what is occurring, and have them see a senseless killing on the news and not understand it at all.
Maybe he is a based 11yo?