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This. If you're old enough to pick up a weapon you're old enough to fight. There's no such thing as "too young" or "not ready". War has never spared the children. As soon as they can coordinate their eyes and their hands they're fighting a war for their own attention, dopamine regulation, self esteem, and social life.
God created Mint to train the faithful.
Something that's amazingly consistent about play behaviors in mammals; play teaches you to fight.
Goat kids rear and headbutt, cats pounce, wolves hound and nip and submit, monkeys chase each other up and down, human kids turn anything they can pick up in to a sword.
Play teaches many other things - social relationships, fairness, theory of mind, coordination, dance, joy. But it also teaches you how to fight, how to hunt, how to move quickly through unknown terrain, how to hide and deceive.
Progress is an illusion. We still live in a world of violence and hardship. Not everywhere, not for everyone, not all the time. But look at the former ussr. 35 years ago Russians and Ukrainians were comrades, friends, building communism together. Now after a generation of Nazi lies and NATO manipulations, capital theft and demographic collapse the two nations are locked in a brutal struggle that should have been unthinkable.
And there are many other, less dramatic cases. Kids will face bullying. Kids will need to lie convincly to teachers and bureaucrats and cops. Kids might need to steal shit. Kids might need to run real goddamn fast, even if it's just to catch the bus.
Every act of play can be preparation for hardship as well as joy. A tiktok dance might teach you to love life, but it's also teaching you to lead and follow, to have patience when other's can't keep up or with your own limits, to coordinate, to view the world as an interconnect network of people. And dancing is just swordsmanship without the blade. Footwork is the first step in learning to fight, before you learn to control your breath or throw a punch.
You can view these things holistically. Learning to fight gives you the power to avoid fighting. Learning the wield a sword teaches you to dance with someone you love. Learning to coordinate a dance routine teaches you to lead an army but also to plan a wedding feast.
True dat. No one should have to deal with this bs, especially kids.
Our cause is just. The enemy shall be defeated. Victory shall be ours. Long live Linux.
Yeah, I mean, to be fair, this will probably be us as well. It's a duality my SO and I live in. Because on one hand, we'd rather they never have to touch social media, but on the other hand, we want a sick gaming and tinkering room where we can all hang and play games. So the former is pretty idealist, and I accept is unrealistic, considering I know the latter is inevitable. Besides, I already have a rolling server rack with some gear in it, and by the time they're old enough for Minecraft, that rack will be loaded with servers that I'll happily let them tinker with.