I knew my Hoverround was missing something: a nacho basket! Also wondering if I can get the optional Doof Warrior package now.
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Again, how does that square with the fact that leaving children to die of exposure was commonplace and socially acceptable? It means that we certainly were able to overcome “biological priming”.
That’s your emotional response, and I’m so glad for it. But I still think it’s a lot more complicated, especially when we’re talking about how humans used to relate to their offspring and how much is “hard wired”.
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Exposure was generally part of a pretty large package, that invoked religion, culture and tradition to overcome the natural behavior of primates. Even then, it was rarely practiced on healthy infants that parents could afford to feed - in ancient Indo-European societies I believe it was mostly used to cull babies with visible defects. It was never what I’d call commonplace - although certainly very much socially acceptable in many times and places.
Very much agree. That’s something humans do better than most animals; we have a large organ mostly devoted to learned behavior.
It was common. In Roman society, the father of the family had the authority to dispose of any infant under his power. Exposure was not only employed in the case of visible defects, or children that could not be cared for or fed; it was also used to get rid of children of undesirable or dubious paternity. Most often those left to die were baby girls. This still happens today as I’m sure you’re aware.
Abandoned babies who were rescued were generally raised as slaves.
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Just because it could easily have increased the danger to her child doesn’t mean that the action didn’t spring from a protective urge. Lots of people are dim, even more so under stress.
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No contrast there. We did and in many parts of the world still do work our children brutally:
https://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/child-labour
I can’t actually find the full text of the Commission Report online (hardly surprising, it was several large volumes) but this site gives the conclusions - which are pretty damning especially given that it would have been subject to the usual lobbying from the mine owners.
This quotes some of the testimony given:
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/ashley.html
I particularly highlight the response by Thomas Wilson. Wonderful example of free market thinking.
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You’re not wrong. But it’s troubling to me, because if that’s the case, it is an insight into the way she understands the firearm, it’s utility, and her relationship with it. And that understanding is very different than I what I would expect in a CC permit holder. I assume it’s now been revoked.
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I wouldn’t.
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Um, according to a friend who studies them, the Neanderthals were a whole 'nother quantum level of brutality. Our very worst excesses match their norm. But this is admittedly hearsay!
I was curious to see if the mother’s CPL had been revoked, and it doesn’t appear to have been, although the prosecutor’s office is supposedly reviewing the case.
On a side note, Fox News is reporting that the carriers’ 20 year old daughter grabbed the notebook out of the hands of the other women, inciting the fight.
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