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[poliphilo]

Children need to know. 

They need to find out as much as they can as fast as they can in order to arm themselves against the world.

It isn't doing them any favours to thwart their curiosity.

By all means protect them from predators, but protecting them from ideas and images is itself a form of abuse.

Do you really think children are angels? Get real. Have you forgotten everything?

Children are animals. 

I was far more depraved at six than I am now.

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[internet-sampo.livejournal.com]

I don't know whether to agree with you wholeheartedly or to say that adults are just better at hiding their depravity (from others and themselves).

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Adults are more skilled- at concealment and control.

[sculptruth.livejournal.com]

And denial, don't forget.

Great post. I work with kids, and remember my own childhood vividly-- they're no different; just younger. "Innocence" is strictly a fantasy entertained by adults. Children know better.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Children are ignorant- in that they're starved of information- but that's not quite the same as being innocent.