Conditioned to be Cruel
But disposed to being kind
6 min readMay 2, 2021
It’s often said that children can be cruel. Unhindered by protocol and convention, children tend to shoot from the hip. Their spontaneity can be disarmingly pure and wonderful but their directness can also be cutting and brittle. But even children we find precocious and mean, rarely have a complex agenda and even when the intention is questionable the goal tends to be self…