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Re: Youth vs Adult vs Authority

Smiling Dave — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:47:24 GMT

Could it be that govt schools are crushing their free spirits, from day 1?

Re: Youth vs Adult vs Authority

scineram — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 21:44:13 GMT

Cause they are ignorant and irresponsible.

Re: Youth vs Adult vs Authority

James — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 21:37:17 GMT

Most people have had their personalities destroyed by the time they enter adulthood.

Re: Youth vs Adult vs Authority

Jeremiah Dyke — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:12:22 GMT

Valid enough, I guess you could say that children are only anti-authority because they operate from the comforts of their parents. It just strikes me as odd that the youth ambitiously break all the rules of authority based on age because they find the rules irrelevant yet at some point they simply stop finding the rules irrelevant and start following them. I guess this why a revolution is probably built on the backs of the youth

Re: Youth vs Adult vs Authority

Marko — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 07:21:58 GMT

What’s so different?

That they have children of their own?

Re: Youth vs Adult vs Authority

Coase — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 02:48:04 GMT

Considering that children have no responsibilities, the costs normally associated with freedom are probably reduced.

Furthermore, it's worth noting that children are very unfree, and most of them don't seem to mind at all.

Youth vs Adult vs Authority

Jeremiah Dyke — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 01:38:41 GMT

If any of you ever work with kids you know that, once established, you cannot take their freedoms without war. They will fight your all the way with defiance.

But adults, they seem to just give their freedoms away. They fill voids with rules, rulers, deeds and deities, etc.

What’s so different?

The youth will fall from running, bruise from horseplay, make their mistakes but at each interval year they long for more freedom.It seems like the youth test the waters of authority up to a point, and then they simply stop and accept it.