"Yes, that used to be a pig."
"OK!" and popped it into his mouth.
Kids really don't care.
The colleague keeps chickens for eggs so she’s exposed to them on a daily basis, so maybe that’s where the difference lies. A pig isn’t a common animal kept in a household or even most backyard farms so a child might not have much exposure to them.
Just a thought, dunno.
Sometimes he'll think up of a pairing and ask me to check online which animal eats the other. Yesterday it was praying mantis Ed VS spiders.
Turns out that can go either way depending on the spider.
One day my son asked if we can go eat one of our neighbor's chickens.
I had to explain the difference between egg laying chickens and meat chickens.
Also I explained that it is rude to eat your neighbors' animals without asking first.
First the farmer pets the bunny. Then the farmer feeds the bunny. Then the farmer gives the bunny some water. Then the farmer kills the bunny and eats him for dinner.
Kids care as much as their parents care and what they teach them. Don't overgeneralize this please. Some do care, maybe most don't but it is something that changes over time.
A more accurate statement would be "kids are really good at taking things as matter of fact".
They don't have very many preconceived notions yet.
How does one thought here follow from the other? I’m not saying that there aren’t egregious atrocities commited in the name of mental health treatment, but it seems that you don’t even attempt to argue that that happened in the case.
With some people in some situations the kindest and most humane thing imaginable is to transport them to a mental health institution and keep them there for 2 weeks. The fact that we have that as an option demonstrates that humans care about each other and are not treating each other as trash.
The baseline, without any systems in place, is that we leave people suffering a mental episode wreak havoc on their own life and the lives of those around them. Now that would be treating people like trash.
As i say it is perfectly possible that your colleague suffered an injustice, or were more harshly treated than would have been possible or reasonable. But then say that, don’t just insinuate it.