Family Mad After Dolphin Bites Girl at SeaWorld, But 8-year-old broke the rules (video)

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230. Well, there seems to be an issue with making comments about a kid

What is this unreasonable and illogical obsession that seems to say one cannot make disparaging remarks about a kid? I bet if John Bohener got bitten and I called him a whiney bastard no one would say a thing - unless it was in support of my comment.

I really never understood the whole "women and children first" thing either. It obviously places a higher value on one set of peoples lives over another. That really doesn't make a lot of sense. If you can get to the life-boat get in it and don't drown.

Why exactly is it apparently off-limits to criticize a kid? Why are they special? Because "they're our future?" Yep, I'm sure people thought Bundy, Gacey, Kaczynski, McVeigh and others were all special when they were cute little kids pulling the wings off live birds and torturing small animals. What a great future they provided us. So not all kids turn out to be a great, special future for us.

My thought is that kids are just as reasonable targets when they do stupid stuff as adults are. By the time you're 7 or 8 you're at a point in your life where you fully understand verbal instructions from adults. If you don't follow those instructions bad things might happen. That would be your own fault and would be a learning moment assuming you survive it.

As I said in another post my mother told me not to touch the burner on the stove. But it was pretty and red so I touched it anyway. It burned my hand and I learned a lesson. Pay attention to what adults tell you.

Parents used to use these moments as an opportunity to teach personal responsibility for one's actions. I fear that these days parents coddle the kids and try to "make it all better" without trying to teach the lesson that if one had payed attention to reasonable, sensible direction nothing bad would have happened.

Oh BTW, if it were a male child I'd be interested to hear the commentary on his crying after being bitten. Unless much has changed since I was a child there would be a lot of "man up" and "big boys don't cry" comments. But since it was a cute little girl all bets are off.