[ SECRET POST #2177 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2177 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Non-fandom confessions/unpopular opinions!

[(Anonymous)]

I'm writing this through the lens of the recent shooting in Connecticut.

One of the major reasons for the difference in opinion is that children (I'm assuming you're referring to kids under 15 or so) haven't been able to have certain life experiences yet -- graduating from school, beginning a family, finding a career, going to new places, meeting many new people outside of their limited spheres of family and school, and so on. It's the waste of potential and the nipping at the bud of a human being.

While the deaths of adults -- especially young adults -- raise the same issue, I think that there's an expectation that a recognition of death comes with adulthood. It doesn't make sense, but part of growing up is the realization that you can die.

You also need to remember that the commentary on tragedies where children have been killed is almost entirely from adults, many of whom have children of their own. A lot of them can't help but think of their own kids when learning about the deaths of other people's children (especially in a commonplace setting like a school). Conversely, there aren't any kids commenting about the loss of parents (and there aren't a lot of young children who would even make that empathetic leap -- your own parents seem indestructible when you're small).

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[(Anonymous)]

Generally I think that the death of an adult generally has way more of a personal impact on everyone around them. It's more heartbreaking for me simply because the circle they'd have built themselves is wider. For me the personal grief of the family of the adult is far easier to empathise with than a whole bunch of adults fearing and grieving for children because they see their own kids in them. I don't get the later bit. It just seems bizarre to me personally. I mean, I understand it intellectually that this is what people do now that you've explained it, but emotionally I still don't get it.

It's the waste of potential and the nipping at the bud of a human being.

This whole confession is, frankly, caused by the fact that I didn't know how many adults died until two days after the shooting because everyone is freaking out over the kids. Also caused by the #20acts that took days to turned into #26acts because now adults are afterthoughts to children, which pisses me off very badly. I know this is what people think to be the crux of the tragedy regarding children, but I don't understand why it's such a bad thing. Even someone dying in their fifties have wasted potential and things they haven't finished doing!