I've apparently done a poor job at communicating the intent of this post, as it seems everyone has missed it by a long shot.
So I'll do a summary, perhaps it will make up for my apparent lack of communication ability above;
I do not arbitrarily rally against authority. I have a general lack of appreciation for it, simply because it has (in my experience) been misplaced or unfairly enforced. There is plenty of authority I am OK with.
I drew the corollary to my learning situation because they were the first non-atomic authority figure that I had, and a reasonable conclusion that my behavior to authority would be learned in those first experiences. Realistically, it had no bearing my argument at all other than to support my own position of distate for authority.
So I must restate the question it seems;
Does the desire to rebel against a self-determined unjust authority decrease with age and maturity, or is it a more ingrained personality feature? ie do you become more complacent with injustice with age and maturity? Do unjust things become less unjust with age and maturity? Do you become more complacent towards arbitrary, unecessary, or unfair authority with age and maturity? These questions are the crux of my quandry, poorly stated above or not.
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Last edited by Jinn; 03-22-2006 at 03:06 PM..
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