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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
I think you're misunderstanding what I mean by "concern for others." Not believing anyone can see into the soul of another, I don't give a crap about whether it actually cares about how you feel or not, I care only about behavior. I never said they don't have their own distinct personalities. However, whatever its innate personality, when it screams at 3 am, you just tell me how much concern it is showing for you, other than its concern for making you do what it wants. However it is born, it has to LEARN that its desires are not reason to wake somebody else up in the middle of the night. Or, at least, eventually it learns that it isn't effective, and you get "concern for others" in behavior if not in sentiment.
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Can you blame me for misunderstanding? What you've said, basically, is that little babies cry when they need something because they haven't learned how to communicate on anything more than the most basic level. I thought this was understood.
As far as you not caring about whether a child (why discuss babies? what's the point?) cares about how you feel, I don't get it. If you want well behaved children, a concern and understanding for how others feel and how their actions affect those feelings makes for well behaved kids. Of course, you can have well behaved children or adults who don't give a shit about anything or anyone, but I doubt this actually occurs in nature too often.
TM
