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With all due respect to Mr. Friedman, but if as a 10 year old, you're winning 50% of the intellectual exchanges with your parents through having the better argu
by xg15 2y ago
With all due respect to Mr. Friedman, but if as a 10 year old, you're winning 50% of the intellectual exchanges with your parents through having the better arguments, then you're either Young Sheldon or the intellectual exchanges weren't very intellectual to begin with.
(Not making this assertion out of some "respect your elders" orthodoxy but out of empirical observations of the typical knowledge level of 10 year olds.)
- JeremyNT 2y agoAs a parent myself, I find myself repeating a mantra learned from Star Wars: > Let the wookie win To Friedman, I suppose, his childhood self is simply a rational actor who is arguing from first principles - as all children of rationalists and libertarians clearly would! The possibility that "maybe I was an irrational child (like every other child) and my parents simply gave up trying to correct me because I was a terror" doesn't appear to cross Friedman's mind, which is incredibly amusing to me.