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"Teenagers are idiots."

AXavierBAXavierB
edited 2011-12-09 15:24:32 in General
Yeah, a good chunk of them probably are. Then again, I'd say people can be idiots in general.

It just annoys me that people under the age of 18 are often dismissed as idiots without ever being given the benefit of the doubt. If they're such morons, teach them something instead of condescendingly sneering at them all the time.

Comments

  • RedEyedAbyssRedEyedAbyss
    While I see your point about the condescending sneering, the stuff adults usually want to teach teenagers is stuff that one can only learn through experience. Of course, that is part of the parents' job.
  • SchitzoSchitzo
    They're somethin' else.
    Very well said, AXB.
  • captainbrasscaptainbrass

    Amusingly, I have often heard this on TV Tropes/here from people who were probably very recently teenagers themselves or still are.


    I think the problem from an adult perspective is that you tend to get set in your world-view, maybe for good reasons - it's what works in your experience. Then along comes someone who asks all these questions about it, and it's easy to get defensive instead of explaining it rationally. "You don't agree with this? Pah, teenagers are idiots!"  

  • IcalasariIcalasari
    No rainbow star
    Teenagers ARE idiots

    And most don't grow out of it :3
  • CrimsonCrimson
    edited 2011-12-09 16:09:35
    Give us fire! Give us ruin! Give us our glory!
    It's more of a been there done that sort of thing. Many people consider themselves smarter than when they were  as teenagers.

    Take me for an example, a lot of the things I thought or liked back then I would cringe or laugh at now. So, whenever I hear a teenager act like x cynical ideology is how the world really works or spout something equally pretentious, I know they'll most likely grow out of it.
  • InsanityAddictInsanityAddict
    Diet NEET
    >Look back with shame on your teen years for confirming to a teen stereotype
    >Disengage yourself from teen attitudes in such a way that you confirm to another teen stereotype

    Story o' me life
  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    edited 2011-12-09 19:50:48
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    People don't finish developing the part of their brain that makes them good at considering long-term consequences until partway into their twenties.

    So yes. Teenagers are idiots to an extent, and that's inevitable.

    Which is not to say that everything they ever do should be dismissed as dumb.
  • captainbrasscaptainbrass

    A lot of the actual fighting in every war you ever read about will have been done by teenagers, or people barely out of their teens.


    Although you could use that as an argument for them being dumb, if you were a (rather bitter) pacifist. 

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