"Yes, let us have all our innate/inherent rights - but none of the concurrent responsibilities. All the privileges of adulthood, but none of the associated responsibilities. All the dessert, and none of the vegetables."
In other words, let's have our cake and to eat it too.
And thus and so an ultra-entitled generation seeks to extend the voting age lower and lower...whilst its standard-bearers will equally vociferously argue that the age of criminal liability be pushed out further and further (towards the late teens)...
Yes, as a good and close friend once taught me, wanting its cake and to eat it too...
Reminds me somewhat of some words with which King Solomon - at the height of Israel's glory as a nation - ended his much-loved Book of Proverbs:
After describing a certain generation, using that very word four times (30:11-14), we find the following words - separately stated for sure, but perhaps relevant to the aforementioned reference:
The leech has two daughters - Give and Give!
In other words, let's have our cake and to eat it too.
And thus and so an ultra-entitled generation seeks to extend the voting age lower and lower...whilst its standard-bearers will equally vociferously argue that the age of criminal liability be pushed out further and further (towards the late teens)...
Yes, as a good and close friend once taught me, wanting its cake and to eat it too...
Reminds me somewhat of some words with which King Solomon - at the height of Israel's glory as a nation - ended his much-loved Book of Proverbs:
After describing a certain generation, using that very word four times (30:11-14), we find the following words - separately stated for sure, but perhaps relevant to the aforementioned reference:
The leech has two daughters - Give and Give!
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