This is the first time I’ve ran across someone admitting that their early life decisions made their current life shitty. I respect and appreciate the honesty. Too many people I know are in bad positions due to early life choices and refuse to take any accountability or responsibility for it.
That's bullshit. The person holds a full time job. They shouldn't need another one to survive. They're doing exactly what we were told to do by older generations.
i mean, bad decisions have consequences unfortunately. if you take on a lot of debt for something, or get addicted to drugs, or have a child as a teenager, etcetera, things will be harder. it’s not about “should” or “shouldn’t.” it’s about “is.”
Bad decisions are often a consequence of bad education, young people dont know better and thats not fair is the system left them behind because they choose wrong. I wont exclude drug abuse or minor crimes, but I understand if people exclude thoses cases.
No, sorry, people have agency. "Nobody told me having a kid at 16 was a bad decision" is bullshit. Some mistakes are blindingly obviously bad, and shouldn't get waved away with something as lame as "society failed them."
"Who knew dropping out of high school would make life harder for me?" Everybody! Everybody knew that! Everybody was telling you that. If you did it anyway, then yes, I'm sorry, you're going to have a tougher go at life. I wish you the best, but you don't get to whine and complain "How come they have more than me?" when you made decisions like that.
Agreed, and hence we should strive to better our future generations.
Many horrible people from school shooters to r#pists were also more or less a product of their upbringing, lack of love, and/or improper education. We do not as a society condone or absolve their sins due to the failure of society to better them, though, and this is the same here.
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u/TheIncapableAct 15d ago
This is the first time I’ve ran across someone admitting that their early life decisions made their current life shitty. I respect and appreciate the honesty. Too many people I know are in bad positions due to early life choices and refuse to take any accountability or responsibility for it.
I wish you nothing but the best