>I don't think it's unreasonable for an adult to believe that their well-considered views are correct Millions of teenage voices suddenly cried out in terror,

>I don't think it's unreasonable for an adult to believe that their well-considered views are correct Millions of teenage voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced. Suffering under a "reasonable" but wrong adult is an extremely common life experience. So common that the sheer weight of observation suggests that "well-considered views" are usually wrong, if not completely ridiculous. Many of my adult coworkers and friends have stated that they are just "making up adulting as they go" -- and I share this observation. Few, if any of us, really understand how things work, why things are the way they are, or if our actions are fair and correct. We would all be much better off if we admitted this poor state of affairs more openly. >I feel this way because I've spent the last 34 years of my life gathering evidence, forming the views that I hold, and testing them against alternative interpretation. Inductive reasoning, the process of building up small pieces of evidence and observations and forming a larger conclusion, is inherently unsound. The conclusions you build from this process are fallible, and should be held with suspicion.