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I think if a 15 year old was put into the position of having to make adult decisions and behave like an adult they would be perfectly capable. It's just that t
by robryan 17y ago
I think if a 15 year old was put into the position of having to make adult decisions and behave like an adult they would be perfectly capable.
It's just that they either don't have the chance or given the option, prefer to cruse through and muck around for as long as possible before being force to get serious.
- evgen 17y agoThe objective reality of the sort of decisions made by fifteen year-oldsters on a routine basis show this to be demonstably false.
- absconditus 17y agoThe point that many of us are attempting to make is that this is so because of how we currently treat teenagers. When you treat someone like a child they tend to act like a child.
- stavrianos 17y agoI've known a couple of people who grew up too fast, and that can be kind of ugly sometimes. I'm all in favor of the emancipation of children and the abolishment of school, but atta same time, there's gotta be some kinda line.
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- whatusername 17y agoThe objective reality of the soft of decisions made by twenty-five or thirty-five year oldsters on a routine basis shows that we have a problem. Extending childhood is not the answer.
- grandalf 17y agoI think you're right. I recall noticing that after I turned 12 my approach to situations was fundamentally adultlike... I don't think I've changed much cognitively since then either... Just the slow accretion of experience, etc. I did learn how to be more self-actualized, etc. since then, since a good portion of even the best K-6 education constitutes obedience training... which I had to unlearn.