The Humean Stain

Here's a little excerpt from the Wikipedia entry on Lyndon H. LaRouche:

--According to a biographer, Dennis King, LaRouche has described his childhood as that of "an egregious child, I wouldn't say an ugly duckling but a nasty duckling." [4] King writes that LaRouche had learned to read by the age of five, and was called "Big Head" by the other children at school. He was also bullied, after being told by his parents, who were both Quakers, that under no circumstances could he fight with other children even in self-defense. This advice led to "years of hell" for him from bullies at school, [5] as a result of which he spent much of his time alone, taking long walks and finding solace in the works of Descartes, Leibniz, and Kant. He later described the bullies in his autobiography The Power of Reason as "unwitting followers of David Hume." [6]--

If only they'd taught the categorical imperative in grade school, things might have been different...