Risk taking and enlisting in armies or expeditions or whatever is different to being fearful and crazy (which is what the article is saying). I prefer the pg e

Risk taking and enlisting in armies or expeditions or whatever is different to being fearful and crazy (which is what the article is saying). I prefer the pg explanation - the reason we have messed up teenagers is they don't have any life direction or things to do. I was speaking to a relative recently who just made it out of the teenage years. He is completely normal in every respect - doing well with his education, socially well adjusted, healthy, polite. But he had purpose and direction to his life very early on - learned to fly at age 16, got a part time job at 17, had specific interests that he pursued. He mostly ignored trying to fit into the social teenage life and this seems to have been a useful hack in getting around wasting time being an emotional wreck. I think give any teen a direction - even if it is front-line infantry - and they don't develop the neurotic self obsession that is common. Perhaps the reasons that young adults are enlisted in armies and for other risky activitys is precisely because they lack the experience to judge risk well, and because societies have found providing them regimented direction is better than leaving them idle?