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Originally Posted by roachboy
simply equating a tendency to resist authority with immaturity is the equivalent of equating more skilled and wholesale submission to authority for its own sake with maturity. both are ridiculous.
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Jump to conclusions much? This simply doesn't follow - just because submission is the opposite of resistance doesn't mean that we're equating submission with the opposite of immaturity. To put it in SAT format:
unreasoned resistance:immaturity = unreasoned obedience:???
And nobody has suggested "maturity" as an answer. How you reached that conclusion...I don't know.
ABSOLUTE submission is just as imbalanced as ABSOLUTE resistance. I certainly wouldn't characterize absolute submission to authority as "maturity" - more like spinelessness. However, there is something to be said for what others have said - the critical ability to determine when submitted to authority is warrented, and when not, and this is an ability that requires some maturity of judgment.