boomerang wrote:I'm glad someone else found it as interesting as I did, FreeDuckl
I do wonder though, if kids came with a blueprint about how to raise them if people would follow it.
If they did follow it would we end up with some very homogenous society?
I really doubt it since there is a lot of genetic diversity -- so there would be a lot of different blueprints advising different things.
I don't know if it could ever be extended to blueprint status though. I mean, it could be "this child is especially resilient" but then what? Send 'em on walkabout and hope that the experiences get very bad but not actually fatal?
I do think the "NOT especially resilient" stuff would be useful, but ultimately I think that's baseline anyway. I'm not sure that anyone who currently neglects or otherwise mistreats a child would be convinced not to if they knew that it would have negative effects -- that is, that's already the baseline assumption, and some messed-up people do messed-up things anyway.