>>3991884This is a dumb anti-natalist meme with no connection to reality. Most kids are much nicer and more gentle than adults. Even the examples people try to give to demonstrate the cruelty of children end up proving the opposite when any amount of thought is applied to them.
>Oh no, that evil boy is picking apart a bug.Except he's motivated by curiosity rather than malice. And adults exterminate whole colonies of insects without a second thought.
>That terrible boy pulled on the cat's tail/hit the other boy he was playing withExcept this is almost always a case of a kid just getting too excited while playing and not yet knowing how much is too much. And they almost always feel bad afterwards for hurting their playmate. Meanwhile when adults hurt other people or animals it's because they intend to.
>Those boys are such awful bullies picking on that other boyExcept the worst bullying is a distortion of normal, playful teasing learned from watching the social violence of adults. In its natural state, teasing is just a social version of horseplay. There's a shared expectation of reciprocity and limits. It's adults that use similar methods, but without restraint, with the intention of destroying other people. Kids see that and emulate it.
