# Mind Control **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [January 10, 2011, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mind-control/567102 "2011-01-10T15:53:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 12
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mind-control/567102/12 "2011-01-10T17:05:07Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > I really hope that is a joke. One of the biggest hurts you can impose on a child and later society as that child enters the productive part of their life is to destroy their creativity. Children have wonderful ways of communicating beyond what adults do because they are not bound by our rules on language. As rules are imposed and enforced by threat of punishment (such as bad grades) the children lose their ability to think freely, and the wonders they could have brought into society is blocked by that wall of fear. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mind-control/567102)._