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[bsd meta] Dazai and Chuuya and Childhood
Dec. 16th, 2018 03:20 pmYesterday someone sent me a tweet that caught my interest (they sent the image and I can't link it because I think it was deleted) which said:
"remember when dazai threatened to rip a 13 y/o childs heart out and then nearly slit his throat for something that wasnt his fault in th first place and chuuya encouraged him
i know Q was a little shit and all but he's still a child"
That is all true, but something about that tweet rubs me the wrong way in terms of how it assumes that Dazai and Chuuya should know better because Q is a child. But here's the thing: they don't. That doesn't make it okay, but it also doesn't make them terrible people for not knowing that the world works in terms of "young people shouldn't be considered unforgivable/completely at fault for their actions because they're just children."
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"remember when dazai threatened to rip a 13 y/o childs heart out and then nearly slit his throat for something that wasnt his fault in th first place and chuuya encouraged him
i know Q was a little shit and all but he's still a child"
That is all true, but something about that tweet rubs me the wrong way in terms of how it assumes that Dazai and Chuuya should know better because Q is a child. But here's the thing: they don't. That doesn't make it okay, but it also doesn't make them terrible people for not knowing that the world works in terms of "young people shouldn't be considered unforgivable/completely at fault for their actions because they're just children."
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