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>It's _very_ important to avoid discouraging teenagers and young adults from going on their own path. Alternative idea: it's important to discourage teenagers
by hugh4 11y ago
>It's _very_ important to avoid discouraging teenagers and young adults from going on their own path.
Alternative idea: it's important to discourage teenagers and young adults from going their own path, to make sure that only those who are really prepared and committed will actually do it. Like the old Jewish tradition of telling anyone who wanted to convert "no, go away" three times before eventually letting them start the process.
- duggan 11y agoThe problem is that this is just rephrasing "survival of the fittest," a concept misappropriated from evolutionary theory into societal planning numerous times by despots, and which - to my mind - has no place in a society mindful of its incomplete information about what constitutes "fittest."
- saint_fiasco 11y agoIt's not like "unfit" people are being left to die. They are just encouraged to live normal real lives instead of young-adult-novel lives.