Children Make The Greatest Remorseless Killers And Revolutionaries

A living blank slate is more terrifying than any AI or robot

Erik Brown
Lessons from History
8 min readNov 7, 2022

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Child Soldier In El Salvador (1990) — By Linda Hess Miller Via Wikimedia Commons [Public Domain]

“He learns by imitation, although his parents think he learns by sermons. They teach him gentleness and beat him. They teach him mildness of speech and shout at him. They teach him a stoic apathy to finance and quarrel before him about the division of…

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