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Originally Posted by SailinAway
Krugman writes, "What they call 'freedom' is actually absence of responsibility." I love my freedom as much as anyone else. But people with an understanding of what it means to live in a society with other people also understand that you have to have equal measures of freedom and responsibility. If you're the parent of teenagers, you know how hard that is for adolescents. We have reverted to an adolescent understanding of freedom.
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This is a very important point that goes beyond the mask issue. This "adolescent understanding of freedom" is what many of us on both sides of the partisan divide complain about when we see all sorts of dangerous, rude, thoughtless behavior on the lake; often followed by an explanation or denial that one might expect from their kids. Things like "Everybody's doing it...it's not against the law...just leave me alone...you can't make me!"
Doesn't it sound like your 15 year-old? Maybe your 8 year-old?