The subconscious reason why people might not care about youth liberation

[DANAT4T]

I agree with the argument and I would like to add two possible points for reflection.

Beyond specialized work, we are also dealing with jobs that are often sedentary. This might just be my impression, but the idea of having a child who in the future will work as a software developer, as opposed to working on a construction site, may lead one to think that physical exercise and the freedom of movement that comes with it are less necessary, and that it is therefore less necessary for the child to develop certain interests.

In the end, this is not very different from gender-related issues between males and females, where parents, at least in part, tend to encourage interests that are more consistent with the images they have of their children as adults. So it is not so much about being forced to study the subject (especially since real studying happens at university; before that it’s… I don’t know, I’m quite skeptical about the rest of the educational path, given that individuals more or less develop independently of their results. I’m not sure if I’m managing to explain what I mean).

On top of this, there is this kind of alarmism according to which children are made of glass, and any scratch will inevitably lead to cracks in adulthood. This is also a consequence of the habit of identifying childhood trauma as the cause of all individual problems, when in reality this is more of a method used to deal with problems (to rationalize them, to give oneself an explanation, and so on) rather than an actual fact.

That said, I still find it strange how individualism is criticized (and it is indeed “dominant,” or at least so in the Western imagination), when it is precisely because of my individualism that I want to consider young people as individuals. In other words, for me it is consistent with an individualistic view to grant freedom and rights to young people.

There is nothing to suggest that you support individualism. You seem to support the tax industrial complex. You probably support the military industrial complex and the prison industrial complex. Do you support individual rights for yourself but group rights for others?

[Not Forever]

There is nothing to suggest that you support individualism. You seem to support the tax industrial complex. You probably support the military industrial complex and the prison industrial complex. Do you support individual rights for yourself but group rights for others?

Do others not have individual rights? Do they only have group rights? Don’t I have group rights? How exactly does this work? Why, to you, are others not individuals with rights as individuals?

[DANAT4T]

There is nothing to suggest that you support individualism. You seem to support the tax industrial complex. You probably support the military industrial complex and the prison industrial complex. Do you support individual rights for yourself but group rights for others?

Do others not have individual rights? Do they only have group rights? Don’t I have group rights? How exactly does this work? Why, to you, are others not individuals with rights as individuals?

I suppose you have to ask yourself those questions. I often wonder if 'Daddy' still loves me. I sometimes wonder if it is okay to be opportunist to people but complain when people do it to me.