Jacobsen pauses again. Then she laughs. The only thing I'd like to see, in some movie sometime in the future, is a gifted kid who's big, strong, athletic and popular. They're always shown in the movies as little, picked on, marginalized nerds, but they can be anyone. And do they always tend to be so . . .
Moral outrage starts early.
We have this whole clunk of gifted kids out there who are naturally designed to be extra sensitive to the goodness and badness of the world. These are the little monitors of the playground, theses are the little champions of justice in the nursery school, people who are constantly upset by injustice and unfairness. Every action, every thought, is like throwing a pebble in the pond, and it leaves a wake, either a wake of constructiveness or a wake of destruction. That's true for every one of us. One more pause.