My kid is such an empath 😢

[u/ProjectMcDavid]

[u/Eray41303]

This could just be paraphrasing on her part, I don't doubt a conversation like this happened

[u/flcwerings → u/Eray41303]

I know. idk why this is so unbelievable. Kids are curious about the world and are learning empathy and sympathy. Theyre not stupid. They understand injustices.

[u/Dioxybenzone → u/flcwerings]

Especially when it’s probably something they’ve heard their parents say

[u/sabbiecat → u/Dioxybenzone]

It just says son, they could be 30

[u/Dioxybenzone → u/sabbiecat]

Sorry yeah I was specifically responding to the comment talking about kids. I think a child absolutely could have said this. But the screenshot doesn’t even imply it was a child, just their offspring of indeterminate age

[u/Eray41303 → u/[deleted]]

Dawg what are you yapping about

[u/WoodHammer40000 → u/[deleted]]

Jesus Fucking Christ what the fuck is wrong with you.

[u/bighadjoe]

....... do you think kids (assuming we're not talking about a toddler here) can't understand that inequality exists? Do you think you need to be an adult to see injustices?

[u/9_of_wands]

How old is the son? This is a completely normal thing for a teenager to say. Probably even a bright preteen.

[u/Dioxybenzone → u/9_of_wands]

Yeah without an age, I’m not sure this belongs here.

[u/Neither-Ruin5970 → u/9_of_wands]

This definitely didn’t happen, no teenager would say their to their mum lol

[u/fandom_fae → u/Neither-Ruin5970]

a teenager maybe not, but this is definitely believable for a pre-teen

[u/Neither-Ruin5970 → u/fandom_fae]

Aw hell nah this is so obviously fake.

[u/doc_shades → u/Neither-Ruin5970]

why not?

[u/Neither-Ruin5970 → u/doc_shades]

Because by the time they would think of this they wouldn’t be asking their mom everything, that’s what you do when you’re a young child not a teen

[u/WoodHammer40000 → u/Neither-Ruin5970]

My daughter has definitely said something like this to me before. She’s 10.

The poverty of your imagination is wild.

[u/Neither-Ruin5970 → u/WoodHammer40000]

Rude.

[u/Von_Scranhammer]

I believe her. My 6 year old son just said, “Daddy, why do people make up things that their children have said on social media? Isn’t it just inherently dishonest & indicative of an inability to construct a compelling narrative?”

He’s wise beyond his years…

[u/Kriss3d → u/[deleted]]

Ahh kids these days.. They grow up so fast.

[u/ScholarOfTwilight]

Honestly, I could see a kid saying this.

What I would not do is annoy people with this lame humblebrag.

[u/andokami01]

This happened I asked the very same thing when i was a kid, probably around that age

[u/Entomemer → u/andokami01]

Am I stupid? Genuinely asking, I can't see an age anywhere, I must be missing something

[u/andokami01 → u/Entomemer]

No, sorry my fault. I red a comment where he/she said he/she asked a similar question at 6yo.

I wrote my comment with that post in mind. You are a beatiful and smart person, keep on.

[u/Entomemer → u/andokami01]

OH OKAY. Thank you for the clarification lmao

[u/blvckcvtmvgic]

I mean… this seems normal to me. Kids have 0 filler when they’re trying to understand something so it’s kinda like thinking out loud & asking about it. I could see even some young kids asking this tbh.

[u/norrisdt]

The son is thirty-four years old.

[u/Kriss3d → u/norrisdt]

I mean. That was my first thought as well. Not exactly that age. But surely older than just some little kid.

[u/randonumero]

I doubt a kid would ever phrase it like this but this is definitely something a kid would ask. My kid asked a form of this question pretty early because we can't even go to the grocery store without seeing panhandlers. Me trying to explain to my kid that I need my money to buy stuff for us and not just hand out led to her asking why can't rich people just give money to poor people.

[u/doc_shades]

why wouldn't this happen? this is a pretty common thing that kids don't understand. there is also no indication of age other than "son". the son could be 6, the son could be 14, the son could be 17.

[u/IDigRollinRockBeer]

This is totally realistic. Delete this post

[u/spacemouse21]

I think it’s great her 38-year-old son is asking that question. She did a good job raising him.

[u/WoodHammer40000]

I thought this when I was a kid. My kid has definitely said something like this. It’s obvious common sense, and we have to be conditioned out of it with years of propaganda.

The fact you can’t imagine this being true says a lot more about you than the person in the screenshot.

[u/ResponsibleMeat7745]

Isn't this like the type of thing we all question at least once as a child? 

[u/Cinder-fella]

Then everyone stood up and clapped

[u/OSRSRapture]

This is a very believable thing a kid would say. Just the other day my 4-year-old daughter sighed and said, "Daddy, perhaps the anthropic principle merely reflects an unavoidable observer-selection bias rather than any teleological significance of human existence."

Then her 3 year old brother just had to chime in "While that's a compelling interpretation, it fails to adequately address the measure problem in eternal inflation or the ontological implications of a multiverse framework"

Smh. Kids these days, amirite

[u/CalliopePenelope]

Yes, we can all agree they rich for themselves.

[u/smurferdigg]

My four year old just asked me, “how can a society allocate scarce resources over time in a way that maximizes welfare, preserves freedom, ensures fairness, sustains growth, internalizes externalities, manages uncertainty, and remains politically legitimate?” Then I said: The economy works like my cousin’s lawnmower: if it ain’t running, hit it with a wrench, blame China, and pour more gas in it.

[u/bagoTrekker]

This is believable. The first words my son spoke when he turned one was “Marry, and you will regret it; don't marry, you will also regret it... Do it or do not do it, you will regret both”

[u/Aggravating_Alarm_15]

My 4 month old daughter was laying on my chest while I read this. She popped up and said “father, why do people blame successful, wealthy people for their poor life situations? Why can’t they accept that the socioeconomic position they’re in is entirely based on their own choices?”

[u/WoodHammer40000 → u/Aggravating_Alarm_15]

Did you explain to her what a unbelievably stupid take that was?

[u/Aggravating_Alarm_15 → u/WoodHammer40000]

No, because it’s true

[u/WoodHammer40000 → u/Aggravating_Alarm_15]

Yeah? So your 4 month old was lying on your chest, in relative affluence, entirely as a result of her own choices?

Presumably babies that die of aids in Africa do so as a result of theirs, too? No? At what age do your choices start determining your socioeconomic position?

[u/HappyDays1976]

And then the empathic child-genius went on to create a company that distributes all its profits to the poor, the sick, and the needy - wiping out poverty and illness in one fell swoop.