bngenoh said:Yeah it is self calming, but it is not hypocrisy, it is a very malicious "evil," both conscious and unconscious. To see & compute the consequences of teaching children to feel, think and thus behave thusly, is horrifying to say the least but very, very saddening as well because they are children, they do not know; but yet those who are in a position of power in the relationship inoculate them with such soul killing poison, that I just can't describe the pain of the child that must take up the facade in order to "belong" just in order to survive.
And how did the five year old girl react upon entering the range? She burst into tears. Up till that moment she was the only sane person out there, probably. And now she must have suffered a trauma, since she was coerced into picking up that dummy gun. All in the name of values.