Why only gray wolves? Why not blue wolves? Or pink wolves?

I wanna go into the wild and see an iridescent wolf staring at me just before a pair of chartreuse and vermillion wolves ambush me from behind.

Damn anti-colour puritans!

Nah, it’s optimistic.

“Haven’t fallen to my lowest yet. Must be doing something right.”

Spanish hookups do have a history of exterminating large parts of a population.

Pull up in a white van with no or blackened windows and offer them candy. Oh and make sure “Free candy” is scratched in on the sides of the van. Wouldn’t want people getting the wrong idea…

Now for the serious advice, don’t do dumb jokes like the one above. Kids need honesty. Screwing around for shits and giggles is always a bad idea around them.

It is what it is.

It really is that simple. But simple doesn’t make it easy.

Simple stuff is often the hardest to succeed in. Sure, you can do it, but can you do it well? Repeatedly? Over a long period of time?

Doesn’t sound so simple anymore. But that’s because the simplicity is a starting point. You build on it, make a foundation you can depend on and fall back to when things go wrong.

Going outside or exercising are simple things, but make no mistake, they’re also a lifestyle. They become a part of who you are, something to cherish, protect and develop that you dedicate a part of each day to. And that’s not an easy thing to do. But once you do it, you’ll know it was worth the hard work.

Flu.

I’m of the belief that we’re all a little disturbed in some way, only that most people prefer the comfort of boring over the satisfaction of disturbing. And the most boring of people are simply better at hiding their quirks.

You’re talking of specific people then, not “People” in general.

Can you though? One has to take precedence eventually.

It’s a very nice set of replies. Quite pleasant to read. Thank you for the whole thing.

People like big buts.

thought must be influenced by some level of internal stimulation, as you can deprive your senses and still think. Likewise, before you have the capability of memory, you are not conscious, it is simply impossible. Consciousness is directly tied to the ability to remember. Thusly it must be some mix of the two, life experiences, and remembered experiences.

Isn’t the internal stimulation just the nervous system zapping things to get a response? And doesn’t that need a trigger to get it going?

Anyway, I feel like I’m heading into contested territory here, but I gotta ask. At which point can we consider babies as conscious?

Most people will claim their earliest memory is at the age of 4 or 5 years old. So that time is probably considered as the general start of conscious identity. Yet some have reported that simulating the conditions in a womb such as sleeping in a fetal position or floating aimlessly within a larger body of water will grant them an instinctual sense of serenity. So it can be argued that at some level, we remember our time in the womb, even though we are not able to recall it directly.

And I’ve seen babies aged around 1-2 years old trying (unsuccessfully) to hide from their parents in order to attempt an action that had been forbidden several times before.

How early does our capability to store memory actually start? And at which point will the amount of stored and remembered experience be enough to count as consciousness?

They are always open to enforce a form of bigotry. So your focus should be instead on that and prevent reaching this situation. Or what? You expect to stop a series of arsons with one bucket of water?

So they have to default on yours instead?

If the kid ends up in that kind of environment, just one teacher using their actual name is the least of the things you should be concerned about.

Hey! Shut up! Harry Potter was an international treasure before Rowling went crazy.

But I would be an annoying PTA parent.

Wait until you’re of legal age, campaign to make it legal earlier, go to a lawyer that works pro-bono and have them sue your parents for not respecting your rights as a free-willed individual.

If your aren’t willing to fight for it, then is it really something you can call a defining trait? If the others aren’t willing to fight for it with you, then is it really something worth enforced?

Going after one teacher doesn’t solve the problem itself. It’s just a skin deep plaster that hides the infected wound below. Fix the wound, don’t just pretty it up.

It leaves me at my original post. This particular teacher’s dumb reasons doesn’t change the idea in itself.

Sure the teacher was dumb, sure the institution didn’t agree. But it’s just the circumstances of this case. Can’t say things will be the same every time, when the circumstances will be different.

That counts as one.