Why are little children fine with the idea of someone they hate dying?

Question

A little girl spat on a boy's desk one day, and he came to class with his grandpapa's gun and shot her. What was his logic, and why doesn't he have any sort of emotional attachment to the idea of someone he doesn't like dying?

Answer 1

There is one person I hate in this world, and with the exception that I dont' want to see his Mom in pain, I am completely fine with him dying (hopefully a painful, excruciating death).

Kids do not understand the totality of death - we tried explaining it over and over to my little sis when g-pa died, but for years, she was convinced that g-pa was sleeping in that room at the church.

In the above story, the kid's logic is that the problem is solved now. The little girl isn't going to bother the little boy anymore.

The emotional attachment and ability to reason/understand situations does not develop in children generally until between the ages of 4-7.

Unless things have changed in the past couple years, it is federal law that a child under the age of 7 cannot be charged with a crime - at this age, the parent is more responsible for the incident than the child...........

Answer 2

kids thinks only of what they want,

it's easier for them to judge a certain situation because they do not think of the consequences,

if they dislike somebody they don't want to be involved whit him/her in anyway so the easiest and for them more logical way is for that person to disappear completely in their lives.

so they often go to the idea that if that person doesn't exist,
life or most probably the world for them as they know it will be better.

Answer 3

Because children realize the finality of death...but don't yet realize the consequences, legal and otherwise, of killing.

Answer 4

They have no concept of mortality....and they tend to mimic what they see on TV. Sad, actually.

Answer 5

because children don't realize the finality of death