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Originally Posted by jwb
I don't think this really has anything to do with the concept of adulthood, no
Children in the third Reich were expected to be Nazis. Children in the south were taught slaves were subhuman.
That has more to do with existing in a given society at all than it has to do with being treated as an adult.
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And what about the adults? What about the grandparents? Those generations existed as cogs in a multigenerational machine that existed with rules passed down by thousands of years of ancestors. And every one of those generations had rules and expectations laid down to them by every generation before them. And the very concept of what constitutes an adult was laid down to every single Hitler Youth by people who grew up in a world without Hitler as a dictator.