Jubbergun wrote:
It wasn't that long ago that people had kids because it was cheaper than buying a draft animal. Seriously, probably only a little over a hundred years ago in this country and a lot of others, people had five or six kids to run the farm. Before I had a paying job, my brothers and I worked for my dad in his hornet and snake infested salvage yard. The idea that a child shouldn't have to pitch in to provide for the family isn't just brand-new and fresh-of-the-shelf, it ignores thousands of years of human history.
And people wonder why it's really dumb to be conservative... HOW does it make it okay just because YOU did it? How does it make it okay just because THEY did it? If fewer and fewer children need to work during high school, it's a sign of PROGRESS. How is it that anyone can deny this? I feel no shame that I didn't
have to work, and I feel no shame that I was able to focus on school and fun and the rest of the enjoyable parts of life back then. Why should I be chided for having video games bought for me, or for getting a car at 16 or anything of the sort? I feel fortunate, yes, and I feel no superior to anyone else. But wasn't the whole point to have a better life than my parents had? So that I can be an even more positive member of society later on in life?
This mentality of "this way worked back then, so it is the correct way now" and "I did it, and I turned out just fine" needs to stop. It just sounds like a bunch of justifications for a situation you had to accept.