5434a
23hr ago
What does "fully" developed mean? Does it matter? It's not like people are useless potatoes until one day in their mid 20s the switch is thrown and everything lights up. Young adults can and do function in the knowledge that serious crimes are serious crimes. These are not complex abstract concepts, certainly not as complex as deliberately not cooperating with the police is.
5434a
1d ago
80-90%. The misses are usually because I get so fed up of not finding what I'm looking for that I end up compromising and regretting it.
5434a
4d ago
There's a workaround for Freetube. Settings > Subscription > turn on RSS. The thumbnails will lack the runtime and some other minor things but it's better than nothing.
5434a
6d ago
Is it a difference of degree you're seeing or is it a difference of kind?
Like, you can use the same job interview coach to help you get a job at Greenpeace or at Blackwater.
Some people might use PUA to recklessly womanise without a second thought for the hearts they break. Some might use it to seek a wife to start a family with. Some might model themselves on Carnegie to better raise funds for a worthy charity but some might use it to defraud pensioners. The underlying dynamics can use the same commonalities (canned openers, demonstrate value, assume rapport, build trust, exploit the fear of missing out, always be closing, etc).
Manipulation doesn't have to be all or nothing and it doesn't have to be purely right or wrong. The trouble with PUA and Carnegie types is they both trend towards inauthenticity in the pursuit of effectiveness.
If you want cynicism then the next step is "They still can't be held responsible because science says now their brains are in decline". Heads they win, tails you lose.
It doesn't take achieving the utmost zenith of cerebral maturation to grasp that robbing a gun shop is breaking the law and invites serious consequences, and as such the matter of peak brain development is moot. Normal brain development for their age is more than adequate. And if they cynically calculate that claiming inadequate brain development is a mitigation then by the same token they should lose their remaining adult privileges.
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