i am emily and...

I think about this story pretty often because something like this happens to some youth a few times a year. What I never understood, is why Lori Drew wasn’t found guilty of some kind of emotional abuse of a child? Anytime adults bully others, especially children, it makes me sick. I don’t understand how people continue to be so terrible on the internet, and elsewhere, but it usually happens on the internet. 

Also, no one is cute or clever by simply calling someone an idiot or a troll. I don’t understand how those one word, simplistic responses are popular. I do understand how people can make absolutely terrible arguments for something, or just say dumb things, but it doesn’t help when a million people respond with ‘you’re an idiot’. 

This also applies to famous children…and famous people in general. 

Oh, and, I’m not trying to argue against free speech. I believe adults should be able to say whatever they want to/about other adults and the law not step in. I simply wish people would be better somehow and also I think the law should punish verbal abuse towards children a little more harshly.

There is a misleading element about the nature-nurture debate, in that there is no real duality in human nature. Nurture is the result of our learning capacity. And our learning capacity is something that we are born with, so it is part of our nature. ………… 

 

The nature-nurture problem, as we are presenting it, raises a philosophical dilemma about human freedom. There is a common belief that man is a rational being capable of free and autonomous choices, unbound by the natural order of the rest of the world. But if human nature is a combination of nature and nurture, and if nurture is subordinated to nature, then our rational choices are not free and autonomous but subordinated to our nature too.