Current Events > What causes a person to lose their innocence from childhood?

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Why can't we be happy like that anymore? What happened that gave us such a cynical mindset in adulthood?
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Reality.
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meestermj posted...

Reality.

Expand on that.
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finding hentai of shows you liked as a kid
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Idk I'm pretty happy.
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Some posts from a thread I'm reading:

1) When a child does something only an adult is supposed to do they loose a little bit of their innocence. This is one of the ways they become adults. This is of course a general answer. There is no exact moment in most cases where one looses their innocence and becomes and adult. Knowing of terrible things does not change a thing, it must be an action. The thing about terrible actions is that no matter your age you know you have done something wrong.

Childhood and adulthood do not have the fine line that many attribute those groups. Neither just being a child or adult immature or mature is the answer to promote 'good'.

2) In the show, Supernatural, one of the charecters, Bobby, had an abusive father who beat him, and his mother. When bobby was tweleve, he picked up his fathers gun, while his father was holding the wife by the hair, pointed it at his father, and shot him. His mother then said, Bobby, now you can't get into heaven. So when did he lose his innocence? When he first contemplated shooting his father? Taking the gun? Pointing it at him? Or actually pullong the trigger?

3) Some of the posts so far seem to suggest the loss of innocence implies the fact of guilt. But to me what is required is either the sense of guilt or the avoidance of this sense through rationalization. Innocence, therefore, is a psychological state. A child is innocent so far as he or she can take appearances at face value, have no duplicity in thought and no rationalization of his actions to avoid the sense of guilt.

Irrevocable action is one way to lose one's innocence, of course. But the loss entails the acknowledgement of the action in terms of its consequences; consequences which must be apprehended at least subconsciously. If there is no sense of guilt about one has done, the perpetrator remains innocent in his own mind.

The loss of innocence that comes with adulthood seems due to the growing sense of the consequences of one's own and others' actions, as one experiences how actions are interconnected with every aspect of life and the world, and one senses their own responsibility toward those consequences. Therefore the loss of innocence is a natural consequence of increasing wisdom. Carrying innocence into adulthood implies to me the breeding of naïveté.
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I would think Shooting his dad, but that's me personally.
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The internet. Seriously
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life
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