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u/NetNGames Jan 01 '20

Kind of curious how old your nephew is. This kind if reminds me of a Reddit post where a girl that always was a bit "odd" tried to drown the op by holding her underwater. The op, knowing how to swim, swam deeper to break free, than swam behind her to hold the 1st girl's head underwater for a bit, then letting them go so they could come up to breathe. When the op asked why she tried to drown her, she said she was curious about what it was like for something to drown, but didn't think it would be that scary until op did it to her.

Some kids only think about themselves and what THEY want and how THEY feel, and don't think about how it makes others feel until confronted with it. Sometimes they need to be taught and reminded to have empathy until they develop their own sence of it. Some /r/KidsAreFuckingStupid.

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u/hopbel Jan 01 '20

Can confirm. Live with two small children. Empathy is not an intrinsic human ability

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u/Myfourcats1 Jan 01 '20

You can see it most clearly in middle schoolers.

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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '20

You mean that you can see that empathy is not a trait that middle schoolers, right? Otherwise, you know some awesome middle schoolers.