When I was eight years old I watched Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier and read a biography on David Livingstone for the first time. The stories of the plucky Tennessee frontiersman and the intrepid Scottish explorer so highly colored my imagination that I decided to emulate these childhood heroes. And so, one fine chilly autumnal morning, with a pellet gun in hand and the smell of woodsmoke hanging in the air, I set out to go hunting.
I probably could have fleshed that section out more, but was trying to keep it short! What I primarily meant was that we all have an internal moral sense of right and wrong, and that children are more prone to show that than adults because they haven’t learned to dissemble yet. So while you might think something that someone does isn’t fair you’re not likely to shout it out like a child should. I wasn’t trying to say that children are inherently moral in that they are “good” because they are children. That, I certainly don’t believe.
As a Hunter only in name, I definitely don’t get the fascination in hunting for sport. Not sure I agree with children being moral canaries. I would argue that civilized children probably are but a room of 2-year olds isn’t a moral place at all.
I probably could have fleshed that section out more, but was trying to keep it short! What I primarily meant was that we all have an internal moral sense of right and wrong, and that children are more prone to show that than adults because they haven’t learned to dissemble yet. So while you might think something that someone does isn’t fair you’re not likely to shout it out like a child should. I wasn’t trying to say that children are inherently moral in that they are “good” because they are children. That, I certainly don’t believe.
As a Hunter only in name, I definitely don’t get the fascination in hunting for sport. Not sure I agree with children being moral canaries. I would argue that civilized children probably are but a room of 2-year olds isn’t a moral place at all.