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If you treat people like children, immune from consequences, they will act like children. If you hold them to a higher standard, the vast majority will rise to
by marcoperaza 9y ago
If you treat people like children, immune from consequences, they will act like children. If you hold them to a higher standard, the vast majority will rise to it.
- HighPlainsDrftr 9y agoWhen are children immune from consequences? Any good parent will discipline or correct their child for mistakes. It is after the child leaves home and has to function on its own does it become a bigger problem.
- analog31 9y agoA good parent will discipline its child, but also give its child a second chance. And a third, and so forth. An observation that I've read on HN is that second and third chances are distributed un-equally, typically favoring the children of the wealthy and powerful.
- watwut 9y agoAnd if you raise standard too high, the majority will fail. That is an easy way how to get back to people or groups of people you dislike - hold them to higher standard.