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16 is way too young. Assuming brain development is paused at that age, society would descend into some kind of Lord of the Flies hellscape.
by booleandilemma 5y ago
16 is way too young. Assuming brain development is paused at that age, society would descend into some kind of Lord of the Flies hellscape.
- priansh 5y agoI would argue society is already a Lord of the Flies hellscape.
- silverpepsi 5y agoSpeak for your own brain, I didn't make particularly impulsive decisions at that age nor at 40 do I have a problem with the logic behind the conclusions my 16 yo self made (I obviously had less data to draw from which wouldn't be an issue at year 50 of being 16). Just sayin'
- pharke 5y agoLord of the Flies is such a tired example to hold forth. It's purely fictional and not generally representative of human behaviour. There is even a recorded incident of school boys being stranded on an island and living perfectly peacefully for more than a year https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-of-the-flies-what-happened-when-six-boys-were-shipwrecked-for-15-months https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-... Yes, humans can be violent but we are obviously more predisposed to be cooperative otherwise we would have never made it this far as a species. You can't put 10,000 unrelated members of any other species in one place and not expect chaos, with humans it's no problem as long as everyone involved has food in their bellies and the promise of going home after a few hours. That's our real defining trait, getting along with each other, our intelligence wouldn't do a lick of good if we didn't have that.