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Danielle, The Feral Child Of Florida
Ozymandias:
I guess I should've made a Cassandra Cain joke instead.
Storm Rider:
I got the joke, but I didn't want to validate it with a reply.
Patrick:
The article mentions that the brother who was her caretaker was mentally retarded. I hope with all my heart that that wasn't also from neglect. After reading the whole article, I have very little faith in the idea that it could have happened any other way.
Uber Ritter:
Depressing, but also intellectually interesting. The recent accendancy of 'nature' people in the popular press and their genetic explanations for damn near everything (much of it probably hogwash, imho) is greatly discredited by the simple fact that people, as we normally think of them--speaking, feeling, thinking as we think of it--are not born but are nurtured into existence by their interaction with others. Hardly a blank slate, but hardly a hardwired machine, either. I think it relates the way that Wittgenstein approaches thought and language in Philosophical Investigations; among other things, that since any truly inarticulate thought cannot be shared it might as well not exist, and that language must be acquired by a sort of training with other people and instruction in everyday life. Feral children think, certainly, but not in the way we're used to talking about 'thinking.' It also says something about the inaddequacy of any atomistic conception of the individual. No man is an island, and all that.
But them I'm probably abstracting this a lot to avoid just how horrible it actually is.
KharBevNor:
--- Quote from: ampersandwitch on 04 Aug 2008, 13:47 ---The Abandoned Children of Bulgaria
This story was familiar to me because of this documentary.
BBC documentary regarding the circumstantially deformed abandoned children of Bulgaria. Another emotionally charged story about those that have been hurt by neglect as they were developing.
--- End quote ---
Holy shit.
Has anyone else watched this?
Sorry to break it to you guys but there is no God.
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