Hey everyone! Do you fancy reading? I still have 6 drafts saved here, some were created recently as I had indeed begun to randomly post some of the drafts I had forgotten about but I have come to this one now. If I am correct, it was intended to be a comment on a Facebook page/post with regards to a comment that mentioned sexuality in someway. I think someone might of been unsure what the stance on kids were, or saying that "Kids are brought up to be tolerant or not so" and so I was explaining my view, that I had always been "Tolerant." A word I do not like here as it makes me think that they are doing something wrong and we decide, "Ok, we will be tolerant and/or forgive you." It is in my nature to be kind to everyone, why would I treat someone with a different sexuality any different? So anyhow, I think I felt they might not of replied or I should share it here but anyhow, it somehow ended up saved here as a draft. I think my point was pretty much finished so I will not edit it in any way, enjoy!


I see what you mean and your good intentions, just to throw my analysis out- I think children (and not limited to children if it be an area where said person of any age has not developed a view, ideaology etc on it) are not born ignorant nor tolerant. We simply are. A rabbit comes over to us. Do we chase it away or pet it? One boy pets it because his mum told him to, one girl chases it because she wanted to. The complexity of just that "Simple" example alone should not be lost, petting nor chasing does not mean good nor bad by default, it depends on why they are doing it and the reasons they will choose one action or even inaction is down to countless circumstantial events, a life crisis which brought a dad to a determined state to teach his children to always respect life, a pet rabbit dying in class making a girl fearful of death and so treating every creature well fearing they are about to die or even a child with the same fears but chases the rabbit away instead for fear of getting close to someone that will disappear soon. Same for tolerance or intolerance, there is a random combination of events that build us up, however, despite struggles in our life I believe there are points where we can decide if we were not able to before, I do not know...as thankfully I was born at a time where children that said they were gay were allowed to mix freely and I treated them no different, the idea that one could treat someone different because of something like that was not something I understood people ever did until I was older, so I just have to guess how it is for people who have different views as my way of not even seeing it as an issue has always been with me but my point is children are ultimately not taught to be ignorant NOR tolerant. There is no default. Sure we can say babies are pure of heart, undoubtably so, however once you start thinking the game changes. People splinter of into their own words and someday they will decide, no matter what you did or did no teach them, to either be tolerant or intolerant. That is not to say what you teach may not have an effect but that it is not that simple either nor can gurantee any results. The choice is theirs, sitting down and explaining things to them and listening to their views is a good thing but children are born neutral. You may say that a baby smiling so suddenly after birth is contrary to my theory but how? Imagine if the baby was (shivers) dumped somewhere cruelly, that they were not has given the first few seconds of their life a positive influence, alreading turning them into a positive person, this is what happens throughout life forever although more complexly. If you want to know how people end up becoming tyrants read my new book :P