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On 13/07/2020 15:11, billw wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:mailman.0.1594649467.948.extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans
ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">ben wrote; <span
style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Socialising
is not a crucial part of </span><span
style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">everyone's
development.</span></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans
ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span
style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans
ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span
style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Of
course I have to disagree with this. A kid who is
home-schooled and has no interaction with his peers otherwise
is going to be a social moron. However, suppose the Fall and
Spring terms, 2020-2021, is canceled. That is far too short a
time for any significant disability to happen. It would take
years.</span></div>
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ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span
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Of course.<br>
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There's social development and there's socialising. I was reacting
to the concept of 'forced socialising', which is a horror to me.
Every human needs a degree of social development - recognising other
human's faces, learning to respond to them in a way that doesn't get
you beaten up, generally developing Theory of Mind, that kind of
thing. Beyond that, though, nobody should be forced to socialise.
Some won't mind, some will hate it, some will be traumatised by it.<br>
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Ben Zaiboc</pre>
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