Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-3146930-20140708014442/@comment-24994749-20140723034754

I also love how some people ignore that the students are 17 right now (15 in Ruby's case). Meaning that they were 12 (10 in Ruby's case) when the White Fang went violent.

They are barely at the final stages of teenagerhood right now (or 1st stage is Ruby's case) and they had barely ended childhood (or were still children in Ruby's case) when the White Fang turned to violence.

Also, given the White Fang was originally pacifist, odds are their violence escalated from victimless acts like normal vandalism to murder over the years, not that they went full terrorist all at once.

I sometimes wonder if people here forgot what it was like to be a kid.

Kids repeat what their parental figures teach them. A child born within a rights movement would have their views stuffed into their heads since day one, even more if said group if the only safe place they have. So, if said group began to change tactics and objectives when they were still a child, odds are they ain't going to question the morality of it. Until, of course, they grow old enough and start to get a broader view of the world beyond the closed space they always moved around and so they can see that not everything outside their safe circle is an enemy and, maybe, from the point of view of someone else out there, they are the "enemy" threatening their "safe group".

Same logic would apply to someone born into a racist family. They will grow up getting the ideas of some being born "superior" and others "inferior" stuffed into their heads. They would grow being fed stereotypes about the targeted "race". They would learn to see their group as their "safe circle", victim of that "enemy" race. They would take any criminal act from any member of the "inferior race" as proof their stereotypes are right and dismiss any case of a member of the "inferior race" acting rightfully as an exception or pretending to cover some ulterior motive, they would deny any possibility of a member of said "inferior race" being victim because they can't be victims, they probably deserved it or cause it to themselves in some form. But, as in the above case, the child will eventually grow into a teenager and get a broader more questioning view of the world. And the question will be: will they try to force what they encounter to fit the ideas they got fed as a child or admit that there are shades of greys and maybe their "safe group" maybe perceived as enemies by other people put there?