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Originally Posted by jwb
The way I see it, they value adulthood because adults are useful, reliable, accountable, and self sufficient.
It's almost the same as valuing something like honesty... It primarily affects the way you can interact and cooperate with said individual.
No. I believe power dynamics are derived from actual strategic leverage rather than abstract concepts.
sometimes, yea. But usually they suffer as a result and thus transform that suffering into art.
If you sheltered them and provided everything they needed, God only knows what they would do differently.
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So you don't think that a fundamental part of being an adult is accepting the society you live in regardless of that society's nature?
I bring that up because I think that is exactly what allowed the German people to live in the Third Reich. I think that is exactly what allowed for people in the South to live in a slave owning society. And I think that every empire that has ever existed has needed this trait to have their population accept the morality of their society militarily occupying another society.