If you haven't already, I strongly recomend reading Lord of the Flies.
Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
I think one begins to lose ones innocence at birth. All that is learned begins a child in the direction of innocence lost in order to make decisions. In the above scenario Bobby was losing his innocence observing the parents fighting, and being beat by his father, thus already learning a sense of right and wrong, knew his father to be behaving wrong, then took action to alleviate his hurting mother and self. I think Bobby's mother's statement to him was awful. If one is asking about a child's innocence lost in the sexual realm, it should be a gradual coming of age when a child is old enough to accept the consequences and responsibility sex, and being an adult entails. (this also includes other adult expectations of society)Kingkool wrote: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?
Fanman wrote:I think that one losses one's innocence, when one commits immoral acts. I believe that an adult can be innocent if they do not commit immoral acts. Ultimately, I think that this question depends on what one perceives as immoral, and as innocence?
Wouldn't innocence just be the lack of realization between right and wrong? To lose innocence by choosing one aspect rather than another of a previously unacknowledged idea seems to be illogical.Quizzical18 wrote:Losing one's innocence begins at the point that the person realizes the difference between right and wrong and then intentionally doing wrong knowing that.
I am a guilty adult. I have leather sex with my own gender. I love gloryholes. And I am not dull-witted or boring. Also, most of my friends are greasy, guilty bastards too. It goes with being an adult. Children are lame.Schaps wrote:To a degree the concept of one losing innocence describes as "watershed" like phenomenon of immediate irrevocable change. I hope that I never completely lose my innocence to be categorized finally as an "adult". "Adults" bore me and most are dull-witted, complacent insensitive shells of their childhood.
I don't often use the acronym LOL. But LOL.I am a guilty adult. I have leather sex with my own gender. I love gloryholes
Close, but I think innocence is lost when having understood the difference between right and wrong one realises that doing wrong can benefit oneself.Quizzical18 wrote:Losing one's innocence begins at the point that the person realizes the difference between right and wrong and then intentionally doing wrong knowing that.
Fanman wrote:I think that one losses one's innocence, when one commits immoral acts. I believe that an adult can be innocent if they do not commit immoral acts. Ultimately, I think that this question depends on what one perceives as immoral, and as innocence?
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