As 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 ratio

As 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.