"As to the topic of the thread: this silly woman Atkinson seems to imagine that 10-year-olds are incapable of recognising that beating a little boy to death with a brick and leaving his body on a railway line to get cut in half by a train is a verryveryveryvery NAUGHTY thing to do. I knew that when I was 10. Didn't she? Didn't you? Didn't everybody?" I wrote 2 days ago ==

to which Virginia replied

"Yes I knew it was naughty. But I bet the neighbour kid who beat up my baby brother didn't know it was naughty to do so, because he was alternately ignored / beaten by his parents.

He had an utterly different view of what "wrong behaviour" was compared to me, who's parents taught me that you don't pick on smaller and weaker people. They taught me that bullying is wrong. The neighbour kid's parents taught him that bullying is right.

Geddit!?!?"

SLOWBURN RESPONSE ···· apologies for delay --

Virginia, what exactly are you suggesting I ought to have "Got"?

regards ~Michael~