Green Nidoking said:
I'm curious, what are your thoughts on the wizardchan topic about lucid dreams that involve an overwhelming amount of posters who admit that all they want to do in their dreams is rape something?
Or your thoughts on the topic about people who use emotional manipulation to have their parents provide for them well into adulthood before they come onto wizardchan and laugh about how easy said parents are to manipulate?
I did not see the topic in question concerning lucid dreaming, but I will say that certain posters seek to muddy the waters. Therefore, anything posted on there, as anywhere else, ought to be taken with a generous measure of salt. Furthermore, there is a difference between imagining something and actually doing it.
Concerning the manipulation - while I do not endorse such tactics myself, I will say that I shed no tears for baby boomers, whose generation has seen the ruin of the western economies, and who stands to reap a windfall from the Social Security ponzi scheme.
It was not my generation that kept ratcheting up the minimum wage so that unskilled labour cannot compete and gain experience. I used to wash dishes at a Chinese restaurant for $3/hr cash because that was the only work I could find.
Nor was it my generation who founded a government education cartel that has seen fit to send tuitions in to the stratosphere, and if that was not enough, to require that in order to receive a diploma in one field, one must take entirely unrelated classes. It is highway robbery writ large.
Therefore, concerning the pitfalls, I will not hold manipulation of parents against them. It is, after all, their parents who begot them, so it is reasonable that they be supported by them if they are unable to support themselves. The unemployment rate in the United States, if measured using pre-1994 methodologies, is a staggering
23%, and I do not think one can be reasonably expected to get a job right out of high school against those odds.
Addendum - it is the norm in a good part of the world, including Italy and Spain, for one to live with his parents until marriage. It would seem that the norm concerning booting people out at age 18 is rooted in this absurd Protestant mythos.