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Re:Training the Masculinity Out of Children by teddyh on Saturday April 14, 2018 @11:45AM (#16837788)
In 2010, there was a camp for gifted children (up to 18, but mostly around about 10) in Sweden. (This story is from a book about gifted children.) The camp had a BYOC computer room, and at one time, the kids in there were mostly playing Minecraft, with one parent keeping watch. There was a rule against killing other players and destroying other people’s constructions, but then it happened that one kid poured lava and destroyed someone else’s stuff. The parent keeping watch thought that this would lead to fighting, ejection and subsequent banning of the offending party, but he chose to stay in the background and silently observe the kids instead of intervening directly. Instead of fighting, the kids self-organized a parliament and debated the pros and cons against “cheating”, decided unanimously not to cheat, and continued to build things together. The parent was flabbergasted and later remarked that few adults would have done what these kids did.

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