Changing beliefs

[Gracchus]

You can survive 3 weeks without food
3 days without water
And 3 minutes without air,

There is some statistical spread but that is close enough for government work.

But you won't survive 3 seconds without hope

Poetic but ... balderdash!

 

[PsychoSarah]

There is some statistical spread but that is close enough for government work.

Poetic but ... balderdash!

It is a saying, not necessarily intended to be completely factual, but I have heard of babies dying from a lack of human contact and falling into despair. It is really sad.

 

[Gracchus]

It is a saying, not necessarily intended to be completely factual, but I have heard of babies dying from a lack of human contact and falling into despair. It is really sad.

The Nazis, in an attempt to raise perfect soldiers, raised babies according to a very strict regimen. The were fed and cleaned according to a rigid schedule, and never touched otherwise. They all died.

It still happens to children today, although it is not so carefully planned or executed. Sometimes it does not kill in these cases, but the mutilated remains of what might otherwise have become human beings are found in the prisons, asylums, and churches all over the world.

It was lack of human contact that killed them or mutilated them. (google: oxytocin) Sometimes this was just parental selfishness or absence, sometimes it was a matter of religion or philosophy.

You can live without hope, although it might be better for yourself and your society if you didn't.