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The term 'cry-baby' is logically incorrect

I was just wondering: Babies are not the only things or stages of life in which we cry. So is it inncorect?

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souloflight (412)

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I think it is incorrect. Many people cry more as adults than they did as babies. Some babies, such as myself, only cry a normal amount and not all the time.

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Srom (12206)

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Babies cry a lot more because they ethier want a diaper change or they want to be fed or held. Adults and teengars don't cry as often.

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chatturgha (1631)

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At no other stage in one's life, though, does a person cry about pointless things as much as a baby. The baby is the only stage in life in which their id compels them to selfishly cry over meaningless things without any remorse. The point of the term 'cry-baby' is to compare your whining and pointless crying to that of a baby.

Do you see people crying over important things as being called 'cry-babyies'? Of course not.

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souloflight (412) Disputed

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Actually when a baby cries it is not for pointless reasons. It cries because it cannot speak or do anything (change it's own diaper e.t.c) Older people cry more for stupid reasons than babies actually. It is in the babies nature but for us it is not we may not be able to control our emotions all the time. Plus how can a baby cry for pointless reasons when it hardly understands anything in the world apart from 'eat, sleep, poop, burp' you cannot blame a baby for crying then.

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chatturgha (1631) Disputed

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Actually when a baby cries it is not for pointless reasons.

Then why do babies wake up in the middle of the night and cry? Why do they cry even though they've been fed and their diapers have been changed? Why do they cry even though they have dozens of toys to play with? Why do they cry for these utterly senseless reasons?

Once again, at no other stage in human life does a person cry in these situations or with this frequency.

They cry in these situations because their undeveloped brains selfishly wish to express without remorse to all other humans around them with how little uncomfortable they are without consideration for anyone else's feeling. Doing such a thing is pointless and needless, but the baby only has an id to psychologically function on.

Older people cry more for stupid reasons than babies actually.

Really? Do older people cry just because they haven't been fed for an hour? Not at all.

Plus how can a baby cry for pointless reasons when it hardly understands anything in the world apart from 'eat, sleep, poop, burp' you cannot blame a baby for crying then.

I'm not blaming a baby for anything. I'm just saying it cries for pointless reasons. Even when a baby can communicate (sign language can be taught to a baby) without crying, it will still cry because the baby only cares about how it feels and not about how anyone else feels.

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souloflight (412) Disputed

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Because it makes sense to the child to cry. And you cannot blame a baby for crying, they have to, can they get their own food? NO, can they change their own diaper? NO. Also which world do you live in???? (no offense, if grown ups don't cry in your world then i envy you) Grown ups most certainly do cry for pointless reasons. The reason for this so called 'selfishness' is only because it is too young to understand life. It only understands that it needs to sleep, cry, poop and eat.

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chatturgha (1631) Disputed

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Because it makes sense to the child to cry.

Yes, but that doesn't make is not pointless and not selfish.

And you cannot blame a baby for crying, they have to, can they get their own food?

I already told you I don't blame them for anything. That doesn't make them any less selfish. It is in their evolutionary design to be selfish, cute and annoying so that something takes care of them.

Also which world do you live in???? (no offense, if grown ups don't cry in your world then i envy you)

Umad bro?

Grown ups most certainly do cry for pointless reasons.

Not in my world. A grown up crying in my world includes reasons over serious emotional stress which have more meaning then crying over your pants being shit in. If an adult cries because they shit their pants on accident, they're a big baby, because only a baby cries over something so pointless.

If a baby knew better, it could change it's own diaper.

But it doesn't know better because it's small and is designed by evolution to come out of the womb helpless so that some creature other then itself will take care of it.

The reason for this so called 'selfishness' is only because it is too young to understand life.

That doesn't make it any less selfish.

Did you know that most mammals stand up within the first 5 minutes of them being born?

It's because they are programmed to automatically know how to survive when they come out of the womb.

A human baby is not. It's not it's fault it's designed by evolution to be more helpless then the newborns of other species, but that, once again, doesn't mean it's not selfish.

I'm not blaming it for anything. It can't help it because that's what nature intended.

But for the last time... that does not mean it is not any of these things, these things being extremely selfish and lazy.

If a baby weren't selfish and lazy, then it would stand up and start taking care of most of it's needs by itself within 5 minutes like most other newborn mammals instead of crying to the point that other creatures cannot stand not taking care of it.

Thusly, if an adult is crying over something as stupid as spilled milk, a lack of 100% comfort, waking up in the middle of the night, or shitting themselves, then they are crying like a baby.

An adult who cries over something emotionally meaningful, like a divorce or death, then they are just crying. Not crying like a baby.

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Koodle0101 (32)

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Adults cry when they are stressed or emotionally hurt. Babies cry for fun, to get attention, to cry, when they're hungry, when they're scared, they cry as a way to communicate everything. They cry more.

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