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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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But we're not equating immaturity to a mere "tendency" to resist authority- we're talking about the relatively automatic and self-righteously indignant show of attitudes against a perceived authority figure. That's what the whole thread is about- vehement aversion (not casual whining). Casual whining is complaining about "the man" to your friends- what we're talking about here is the show of intentional disrespect for the rules of an authority figure, simply because such rules exist, or such a person is enforcing them. Therein lies the heart of the "vehement aversion" we're really talking about here, which IS a function of an immature mind.