Legitimate question, and I'm not judging here. I don't know your world. All I know is you've made it clear it's pretty rough.
But has anyone back in your world considered that maybe kids wouldn't resort to petty crime over stories, if they had something worthwhile to do?
It sounds to me like those kids just need direction. They're probably looking for stories that have meaning, right? Same reason those comics exist back home in my world -- entertainment, sure, but it's a mix of people trying to make sense of living in a world as weird as ours, and them liking stories about heroism and altruism and all that good stuff because it's...it's just something that's worthwhile.
Has anyone in your world considered taking those kids and having them do stuff that might help people? So they can feel like they're doing things as good as in those stories?
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But has anyone back in your world considered that maybe kids wouldn't resort to petty crime over stories, if they had something worthwhile to do?
It sounds to me like those kids just need direction. They're probably looking for stories that have meaning, right? Same reason those comics exist back home in my world -- entertainment, sure, but it's a mix of people trying to make sense of living in a world as weird as ours, and them liking stories about heroism and altruism and all that good stuff because it's...it's just something that's worthwhile.
Has anyone in your world considered taking those kids and having them do stuff that might help people? So they can feel like they're doing things as good as in those stories?