The Crybully leftist mending themselves
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That's pretty close to what I think. I'm 40, and the parents of many of my generation were terrible. So I dunno when it started, but it was going on 40 to 35 years ago. Some parents just never told their kid no. And somehow the snowflakes have survived. I really don't get how they haven't been shanked by an illegal immigrant in a Houston gay bar parking lot. Some have, no doubt. They neither understand the difference between right and wrong nor risky and safe, since their parents were always out front of their dumb decisions, too.
So, yes, "right and wrong" becomes "whatever you want." There is no moral challenge at home when you have no rules. They go off looking for meaning in the form of simping for groups that they perceive have real problems. All their compassion gets misguided from their own community to someone who doesn't give a fuck about them in Tibet.
Imagine little "Courtney" wants to dress like a slut, but the 9th grade won't let her. do you a) confine her to the house for 2 weeks for trying to go out like that b) tell her to put a sweater over it at school, but she can wear whatever she wants on dat street OR c) go complain to the school. We are dealing with the progeny of c) parents here.
This isn't some boomer thing. "Spare the rod, spoil the child" is older than your civilization. You needed more rod growing up.
Getting decadent and declining is as old as civilization. So yeah.
I didn't get hit by my family but I just recognised authority of when to stop, especially from my Grandmother, she used to raise guard dogs so HAD a commanding voice when she needed it while my Grandfather had so much respect that it actually hurt me emotionally to disappoint him.
I get the meme 'spare the rod, spoil the child' but that doesn't mean that's the ONLY solution. At least with how family raises you, interacting with other kids, however, sometimes fights help you learn that everyone else AREN'T your family and aren't going to hold back as much when you do dumb shit.
What people don't seem to get is that some just... well, fall in line. Get thier shit together. Learn from good examples and understand that there's a reason thier elders have survived long enough to become thier elders.
Others, however, just need a good, solid, hard punch to the face to straighten up and fly right. Maybe several.
I've seen it in dogs. I've seen it in people. It's not that every kid needs to get thier ass paddled in thier younger years, just that the option needs to be on the table.