Very good point. I think most people would find it hard to grasp just how violent some of the Brothers Grimm stories are.
Many find it hard to grasp that punishment is earned and due, whether or not the punishment is violent.
There are legitimate philosophical questions about the purpose of punishment, and whether it actually does what we want it to do.
>There are legitimate philosophical questions about the purpose of punishment, and whether it actually does what we want it to do.
But we are talking about stories, and I mean non commercial, people stories. The punishment can be that a baby bird ignores the mother advice , gets hurt and dies in the cold winter. The idea of the story is clear, children must lsiten to the parents or they can get hurt, now maybe in the stories with the bad wolf you might claim that in modern time it is bad to tell the story because the wolf gets the capital punishment s we need to "Disneyify" the story and have the bad wolf sent to therapy with therapy rabbits and he will become a productive member of society again.
Anyway from all this comments on this thread it seems americans only know of Disney and tghe Grim brothers, no one could concieve I am talking about a much larger diversity of stories.
Sure, but classic folktales weren't intended for children. They were stories largely for adults.
Indeed, the Grimm brothers did not intend their books for children initially. They were supposed to be scholarly works, but no one seems to have told the people buying the books who thought they were tales for children and complained that the books weren't suitable enough for children.
Eventually they caved to pressure and made major revisions in later editions, dropping unsuitable stories, adding new stories and eventually illustrations specifically to appeal to children.
>Sure, but classic folktales weren't intended for children. They were stories largely for adults.
Really?
Stories with child ignores parents and they get hurt were made of adults ?
i was not talking about stories where udnead creatures come at night and kill your very young baby.
I am not talking about those storie, most stories have a bad character that does bad things, and that is in the end punished in a brutal way, With American AI you can't have a bad wolf that eats young goats or children unless he eats them maybe very lovingly, and you can't have this bad wolf punished by getting killed in a trap.