The Feral Child – A retard or a survivor – or both?

Originally posted by Ou Be Low hoo

GCG...You're right, we are talking about the same thing...I just don't agree with your definition of 'sub-human'.

I dont agree with the definition either, but its not my will to have it defined like that.
When i saw the documentary WILD CHILD on discovery, the re-enactments of the sories portrayed the Feral kids as being primitive in being - hence when compared to other children with the General human upbringing, they are dubbed as sub-human cause of their animal similarities. Not that i like it but thats how it is.

I'm not sure where this topic is going, but a kid being raised by animals is no less interesting than a lioness raising a gazell.

Wow ! sharp contrast there !
But i guess you may be right. I know that baby duckilings consider the first thing they see as their mother and that determines their survival. I saw something on real TV on which a man raised Geese when they hatched and bought a plane to fly them south when winter approached !

Originally posted by FeceMan
You obviously know NOTHING about psychology. Go about your ways and spew your ignorance elsewhere.

Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Owww...Is this your dolly, FeceMan? It hit me as you threw it out of your pram...Please take it back. Thanks.

GCG...Now I see...Please excuse my previous response to you. It is indeed a failing of popular western thought - illustrated in this discussion by FeceMan - to subject anything that is not within 'our' own perimeters of 'intelligence' as 'sub-human'.

Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Owww...Is this your dolly, FeceMan? It hit me as you threw it out of your pram...Please take it back. Thanks.

Anyway, that did not refute any of my earlier statements--particularly the one about you not knowing anything about psychology--nor did I say the child was an undermensch.

Well guys i didn't folllow all this but i recomend The elephant man, a real history of course, at the end of the movie they quote something like: mind is the final base to judge a man. The man was all deformed was almost a genius that can even talk correctly.

I mean someone isn't retarded for not knowing how to write or eat at a "Mc Ronalds". Culture imprinting or something like that is quite different from retarded.

Originally posted by FeceMan
that did not refute any of my earlier statements--particularly the one about you not knowing anything about psychology--nor did I say the child was an undermensch.

A scholar does not spend his time teaching a child in kindergarten. I'm a scholar...Guess what you are...