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Originally Posted by DrPhil
This sidenote says a lot. Perception and reality are shaped by a number of things, including age and life experience. I was upset when I had my experience in elementary school. But, I don't know how I would have felt if I had outraged adults guiding my thoughts, actions, and interpreting the incident for me. Perhaps I would've been scared and way more upset than I should've been based on the incident alone.
That added social-psychological affect is essentially what Kevin and I are talking about. The kids couldn't be shielded from the incident and how it made them feel (those of them who genuinely feel something). The rest is up to the adults around them.
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I agree that the media around this is "extra," while still maintaining that the incident itself is noteworthy for some of the reasons that we are discussing in this thread. I felt, though, that some of the tone of what I was reading was minimizing the incident itself. I would ask whether your position and that of your parents also impacted the way that you negotiated your experience and the tools that were available to you to make sense of the incident. To be very honest, not everyone is lucky enough to have those tools.
So shultzz is a troll. Yeah, I will pass on that level of cooldom. :neutral:
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