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Check back in a couple of decades, and you might change your opinion of how one defines "adult". Sure when I was 22 I felt as grown up and superior as anything
by sundvor 7y ago
Check back in a couple of decades, and you might change your opinion of how one defines "adult".
Sure when I was 22 I felt as grown up and superior as anything, yet the same amount of years later I realise how little I in fact knew then, and still do.
Christian did the old kid a huge favour.
- CDSlice 7y agoHonestly if you haven't learned "do not try to defraud people out of their money" by 22 I doubt a few more years is going to change his mind. Furthermore by 22 the vast majority of people are able to lead healthy adult lives without scamming people. They don't have the experience that older people do but it shouldn't take a lot of experience to know that stealing from others is wrong. I also don't think Christian did the scammer a favor either. If anything Christian's interaction with the scammer may have emboldened him because even when he got caught he got away with nothing lost other than a potential reputation hit with his family. Can encouraging a known scammer to keep scamming by showing them how to not get caught and that there aren't any consequences if you do manage to get caught really be considered a favor?
- dsfyu404ed 7y agoStop infantilizing people. People don't become proper adults until they've had a few years making decisions and handling the consequences. If you just keep giving people easy outs and rationalizing it as them being young and stupid they will never become smart. Yeah, some people are gonna have to go to jail for their screw ups but on a societal level that's preferable to everybody still acting like idiots at 25.