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Post by Niluial on Apr 12, 2004 14:07:34 GMT -5
Does the Younger Generation Knows Best... or are we just a whole lot of airhead teenagers? Lets be reasonable in this debate!
~Niluial
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Post by Istawen Aeros on Apr 12, 2004 15:12:20 GMT -5
The younger generation doesn't know best because:
1. We have not lived as long as our parents and grandparents.
2. Wisdom comes with life experiences. On the whole, the younger generation has not had chances to learn and to grow (I said on the whole -- there are exceptions).
3. Even though the older generation can be really annoying and closed minded doesn't mean they're stupid. Far from it.
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Post by Elentari on Apr 13, 2004 14:37:46 GMT -5
I agree with you Istawen. The younger generation may think they know best, and go to great lengths to prove it, but the older people always turn out to be right.
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Post by Istawen Aeros on Apr 19, 2004 13:44:36 GMT -5
Because nobody is responding to this debate, and I think it's a darn good one, I'm going to play devil's advocate. I'll more than likely look like a fool, but maybe it'll spark the fire of a good rousing debate. Consider me doing my administrative duty which is really not a duty at all....*wink*
Well, I totally think the younger generation knows best! I mean, those old fogies lived years ago. Things have changed, people! Who lives in our society? The parents are all out working and it's we who know it best because we live it all the time. We know how to handle situations to our advantage. We know how things work. Seriously, the younger general knows best. Totally.
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Post by Nurumaiel on May 29, 2004 13:43:29 GMT -5
I don't really know how to answer this one way or another. The majority of the time the older generation is right because of their life experience. However there are exceptions.
Take St. Dominic Savio, for instance. One must agree with me that he was much wiser than many adults.
Wisdom usually comes with living, so the older generation often takes the advantage, but then again certain young people live more fully in one day than many adults could in hundreds of years because they actually live, look, think, and seek to understand.
St. Thomas Aquinas also springs to my mind, though he lived to be an adult, unlike Dominic Savio.
There's no one way about it. Many times adults are wiser than young people, but sometimes young people are wiser than adults.
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Post by Dragoneyes on May 31, 2004 3:08:40 GMT -5
Well, it is possible for a young person to know more about a certain subject than an adult. I could tell my dad all sorts of things about playing the piano that he wouldn't know. Some young people can happen to experience things that an adult might not have, for example, breaking bones, car crash, death etc. these are things that some adults have experienced realatively little of and yet some young people have experienced a lot.
But then again, I couldn't exactly be my own parent so the older generation has some uses I suppose ;D
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Post by Nurumaiel on May 31, 2004 18:43:28 GMT -5
You've raised an interesting point, dragoneyes. It also depends highly on what the subject is to say who knows best. While considering the example of music, most adults I know could teach me a lot about the guitar but when it comes to tin whistle they're clueless and I know exactly what I'm doing.
And life experience, too. Where one lives their life, in example. I've lived most of my life within my large Catholic family that isn't in the least broken, but someone older than me might not know anything about large families or the Catholic Faith even though they're older than I am.
I think dragoneyes has hit the nail right on the head. 'Who knows best' doesn't really depend on how old someone is, though that can be relevant, but on what the subject of 'who knows best' is and how and where the person has lived and what they have experienced.
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Post by Tinaraviel on Nov 20, 2004 9:40:17 GMT -5
The younger generation doesn't always know best but a good bit of the time we do. My grandmother, for example, thinks I have no fiath in God because I don't go to mass, I don't go for the soul purpose that I should want to go, not go because I feel I have to my gran goes because she feels she has to, and I think that's wrong. I feel you should know about your religion, and I doubt she even owns a Bible.
Take teenage pregnancy. Today teenage pregnancy is dealt with, before it was even thought of until it happened to you.
And saying that the younger generation always think that they know best, the older generation don't?
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