I have noticed that everybody, or at least the majority of the people have a “soft spot” for children.
My question is: Why, for goodness sake?
“Because they are innocent”, You might say, but I find that they are far from innocent. I remember that children can be ruthless to other children and manipulate with adults. I used to be quite unpolite myself at the age 7 to 10 and bullied a boy, with other kids (I have been regretting my spineless personality in my childhood for at least 3 years now, and the things I did), just because he was mentally slow, which made him a freak, at least that’s what the others said. The same goes back as far as I can remember and I seem to have been the relatively nice one(so the teachers and other adults used to say).
So, does this sound innocent to you? It doesn’t for me. I may have misunderstood the meaning of innocence but a creature that acts like that can, in my mind, not be considered innocent.
Maybe children were nicer and actually innocent before christian religion , or mass media started to influence they’re development of personalty but I have no way of knowing that.
So, can someone explain to me: Why children are considered innocent and all most everyone likes them?
I could go on and on why children, these day at least, are terrible people but I think I have proven my point for now. 
My guess: they’re cute, and no one wants to admit that such a thing of beauty could author such horrible works, so they allow themselves to be lost in the illusion, choosing to look at only the events that support their viewpoint.
Yes but why would someone do something as stupid like that?
Wait! In what way are children supposed to be cute?
My physics teacher just gave a great explanation. See, all your preconceptions, everything you think you know, until you can clarify it and make it not unconscious, say by writing it down, and why you believe that, they all are basically a part of ‘you’. Now, when evidence is presented that contradicts this preconception, then as that is part of ‘you’, this evidence is opposing you. Personally. It must be eliminated, so it’s ignored.
If, however, you can clarify what exactly it is you think (which most people wouldn’t bother to do with such a subject), say you write it down, then it can be treated as just an idea, outside of ‘you’, and compared to what there is and changed.
And they’re cute because they’re innocent. Wait a minute…
Lieu brings up a good point, that basically all we know growing up is built from preconceptions, and a small percentage of what we know is what we have witnessed or observed ourselves. For example, if we were brought up with people who told us that children were hideous, we would believe it because that’s just simply the preconception in our minds.
of course you can change your mind but it is often difficult and usually takes someone else to help you.
Perhaps they wish to be young again, so they are naturally attracted to youth (not that way 
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I like some, not the hyper ones, or the ones that go crazy and are spoiled by their parents.
Yes,the parents are always taking the blame…mabye that is why little kids are rascals.
My friend’s cousin is very irritating(he is ebil)
He is always hyper,and despite his age(5) he think’s he’s the boss.
He is spoiled of course,his parents never look after him…his mom always asks me to do that.He always screams for no reason and he cries if he doesn’t get what he wants…Noob 
He also treats me like crap,i’m gonna start being more unforgiving with him…
Altho,i myself am sometimes extremeley childish 
So,if parents were to treat him like an older kid,they would be better people…
it is brilliant when you see their little personalities emerging. Their joy in the simplest of things.
But this innocent thing … children become increasing aware of what is right and what is wrong from an early age and parents should encourage them to try to choose what is right. After the age of seven a child definitely knows what it is doing!
It is not as brilliant when you see that these little people are growing personalities that will start worshiping some idiotic singer or artist. They’re just doing they’re job and get (over)payed for it, you don’t see people hanging pictures of plumbers on they’re walls or listening to how one cleans someones pipes from an MP3 player nor having it as a ring tone for they’re cellphone. Actually singing or acting isn’t even a real job, in the old times an idiot would do stupid things for the ruler and his underlings to amuse them, he was called a fool or a joker or a village idiot. Then there were choirs who sang at churches and soloists who sang at taverns and such, were usually backed with some people on instruments. There were actors aswell, but I believe they mostly performed in a small box with hand puppets or vere comedians who made fun of the people in high jobs. They were payed but I think they did all that entertaining on they’re free time when drunk.(that’s along the lines what I have read somewhere, many mistakes are in it propably)
These days song and theater are “mass produced” and they’re quality suffers when everyone thinks he or she is going to write a song and sing it with his or her cool new guitar and get rich of those brainwashed idiots who rush to buy those pointless songs or movies or shows, just because someone who has influence on them likes it or just made a deal with the artist to spread his “music"or"acting talent”.
Here, where I live, an artist who calls himself Enrique… erm… something, visited and gave a concert. The majority of the people who went there were teenage girls. Some of them even lied about being in some nightclubs with him after the concert(apparently that artist decided on the last moment to go ta a different night club, so these girls who said they met him at the first nightclub were exposed as liars very fast). Why would you lie about meeting someone like that Enrique guy, or, why would you even want to meet him in the first place?
Than they can these days get a personality where they cant think without their gang or “friends”.
I think the reason for this sick behavior are the parents who were not raised (I hope this is the right word)properly themselves and later raise their children even worse than they were raised.
They can’t or won’t spend more time with they’re family, instead they spend time with they’re terrible friends and in the company of the works of the artists they worship, which are mostly awful and pointless and maybe even destroy ones mind. So if they had proper parents who would teach them the real values of life, they would most likely become better people.
This got a bit too long 
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Yes, the it’s definitely most commonly the parents fault.
But do you call many things noob(that is, I think, not even a real word among others that are used like l33t or h4x0r, very annoying things they are)?
I have to agree, some people want to be young again so they could either fix some mistakes they did or just live longer… or just feel like a child again 
… ahem. I wouldn’t have anything against these not hyper ones and are not spoiled by their parents, but such children are rare, at least where I live, here the minds of almost every child are broken and from the age of 5 to to they’re death will remain as broken as they’re parents allowed them to become, unless they develop the base of they’re personality before they become corrupt. So, it really makes me think what the future of my country will be like, the only hope is that they will eventually grow out of they’re bad habits.
Aks, are people running around telling you how cute kids are all the time ?
It can be puzzling to be around people who have vastly different interests, and hear them going on and on about how great this thing is, that you don’t see anything special in.
Children are pure potential. They are total vitality, clarity, formless awareness, crystal clear, honest, deeply connected to emotions and intimately aware of places that only the greatest of lucid dreamers and mind explorers will ever go, the baby is in a stream of images and sensations.
This is why people love children, they intrinsically soften a hardened personality and allow it to feel love and emotion, and this causes the adult to be fully humbled and be made like a child again.
Children and Saints are the purest of heart,
however because children are completely impressionable they can be fiercely manipulative.
Children are portals to wonder, clarity, freshness,
the elderly are portals to wisdom, serenity, acceptance.
What you said makes sense(nicely said, by the way 
). But I still don’t like children much. I just can’t see the “pure of heart” of a child laughing at someone who has a burnt face nor how they can’t seem to get along with those different of them. It must be the lack of morality…
As I am sure that the fault really lies mostly with the parents, maybe there should be schools of some sort (if there all ready are than they are either not very popular or doing a terrible job or even both) to teach them what not to let the child do and how one should raise them so they wouldn’t have the need to torture defenseless animals nor other children who have been raised better or just have some kind of a deformation of some kind.
Oh, yes there are people running around telling me how cute children are. And I’m the only one who doesn’t get it… It’s getting annoying. If I ask those people, they just say that:“They just ARE cute” as if it is something everyone MUST think…
I can understand everyone has they’re likes and dislikes but that 99% of people I meet share the “thing” for children is just strange for me.
Younger kids are ok. I mean sure, I love playing little games with them, reading them stories, etc. I’m softer with them then I usually am. However, if they bug me or do something bad, like really bad, I tell them not to do it again. I can get angry with them sometimes, espically if they’re older (around 6 and up) and know that they shouldn’t have done that. Younger kids (5 and down) are still learning what’s right and wrong, so by telling them (any age), I think i’m helping them grow. But sometimes it’s just hard to deal with them. They don’t have the same maturity level as us, so I guess we tend to find it a bit annoying if they throw a temper tantrum and bang there feet on the floor.
All in all, I see it as they’re still growing and I’m helping them along the way. And some people just like to baby them while they still can. I guess.
My 2 cents. 
Aaah… yes, most likely true again, but my experience tells that giving advice to any child will result in either it saying “oh” or “uhuh” and forgetting it all or saying in you’re face that you are stupid and that they’re parent(mostly a person in they’re late or mid twentys and who can’t really deal with his/her life as it would be in his/her power, sometimes he/she an alcoholic at best) is smarter, sometimes they are right and they’re parents are good people, but just can’t raise a child very well.
I’m not saying that I would do better but I would NOT let my child to become someone that judges things on they’re first glance and is a slave to society(I’d rather kill him/her ) like… well… most of the people my age I know, or they’re parents.
Once I was at a reunion kind of party, not many children were there, there wasn’t much to do either so I tried to teach some low level math (like 2+2) to a 6-year old. At first he seemed very interested but when he saw that he couldn’t get rid of me fast by saying “aah” and “mhmh”, he started to whine about irrelevant things like that the pencil was too heavy… Children are not very good at making excuses it seems…
I didn’t want to waste my time on arguing about a pencils weight so I found something else to do… like ambushing people in the dark(I was around 10 years old myself back than) yelling:“you’re purse or you’re life?” 
!
Is 2+2 too hard for a 6-year old, though? I don’t think so.
Two words…
Maternal instinct…
DARN IT!!
melts when sees little kids
I don’t really like kids all that much.
Ha! I’m not the only one!
Instincts? Maybe, but I believe a person should have control over them, well most of them and maternal instinct should be one of them.
What if a child suicide bomber makes a mistake and drops the trigger for the bomb. This is when usually the police or the sniper shoots the “terrorist”(it would make sense anyway). But if that instinct prevents you from doing it immediately the “terrorist” will pick up the trigger and probably sooner or later will blow someone up with him/her.
Kill the bad instincts and keep the good ones!
Let’s see not all kids are evil. Some are nice (very few but still), I think people have a soft spot for them because… they’re tiny and no matter how “High and Mighty” they might act they’re still defenceless (you know the small ones under ten yrs old).
The care for children has also a biological basis, they’re the ones that will make your species go ahead, and they’re weak and defenseless, and thus must be protected.
There’s also a hormone that stimulates parental cares.
Because an instinct could cause trouble in some rare occurrances, it doesn’t mean it’s bad. It’s more of a matter of right situation or not.
Children might do what they’re told, like blow themselves up near many people in the honor of some god or something. I don’t thing children come up with an idea that “I’ll strap on some dynamite and blow up a chopping center along with myself.”
If the future consists of people worshiping bands 
and building shrines to them , it doesn’t look very good… There has to be a way to change the way children grow up, so they would become people who CAN and WANT make a difference instead of listening some silly song by some band.