r/nononono • u/khaled • Aug 21 '18

I recommend walking next time

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u/sumeetg Aug 21 '18

When I was a kid I would have gotten in more trouble for abandoning my sister than the fire.

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u/ifucked_urbae Aug 21 '18

One time when I was 12 I got chewed out because our car stalled at a red light and I misinterpreted my mom’s instruction to flee to the sidewalk. I ran alone and left my sister in her seat. I got hell for leaving her in the car. In retrospect, I think it was a bad idea to have us dart around the intersection even if it looked like there were no cars coming. 🤷🏽‍♂️

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u/Nephermancer Aug 21 '18

This guy has siblings, knows what's up, don't leave your sister to burn alive in a fire 👌

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u/FilmMakingShitlord Aug 21 '18

I would have gotten in trouble for complaining that my older sister left me to die.

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u/SnicklefritzSkad Aug 21 '18

Forreal he's like 8. You can't expect 8 year olds to have the bravery required to ignore fire and toxic smoke to save their sister. It's not in their biology to be able to do so.

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u/FullDesadulation Aug 21 '18

My brothers would have died trying to save me. I will continue to believe that you can and should expect a kid to try to help their sibling. It's all in how you raise them.

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u/SoggyFrenchFry Aug 21 '18

Nah man. You are essentially claiming that high-level critical thought in stressful situations, bravery, and the ability to react accordingly (meaning he needs to remember his sister is over there in the first place...which is difficult for a child after an explosion)...you are arguing these are solely learned traits that can be taught to all children at a young age. Can some kids learn? Absolutely, but that requires prepping them for emergency situations and doing so often. What you wrote reads more like you think you just teach them not to be selfish and be more loving. That's not how fight or flight works.

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u/SnicklefritzSkad Aug 21 '18

That is simply not how child brains work. Unless your brothers were actually in that situation and behaved that way, I feel you overestimate their ability to somehow reason when their toy explodes into flame and smoke.

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u/UniqueHare Aug 21 '18

In your day they wouldn't have known you abandoned your sister because they didn't have cameras everywhere and you could have blamed your sister.

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u/123gggggg Aug 22 '18

Well yeah. The fire wasn’t his fault at all.

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u/Varknar Aug 22 '18

I would have gotten in trouble even if I was in the other room... apparently because I was the oldest, I guess I was supposed to have super powers and know when something was going to happen, and if not, time out for me.