We are not even asking, we are demanding that they do that. And it seems that the reason that we do that is because we do not want to carry that burden until they are old enough to bear it themselves, as in the excerpt. Instead, we refuse to carry it because it is an annoyance to do so, that it is something that we can get out of doing, …
We are not even asking, we are demanding that they do that. And it seems that the reason that we do that is because we do not want to carry that burden until they are old enough to bear it themselves, as in the excerpt. Instead, we refuse to carry it because it is an annoyance to do so, that it is something that we can get out of doing, and so we do, and the children, all too often OUR children, must bear it instead.
So we make up reasons that it must be done by them instead of us. We rationalize here, there, and everywhere to respond to the question of 'why?'
As Robert Heinlein so correctly put it, "Man is not a rational animal. He is a rationalizing animal." There is a world of difference between the two...
We are not even asking, we are demanding that they do that. And it seems that the reason that we do that is because we do not want to carry that burden until they are old enough to bear it themselves, as in the excerpt. Instead, we refuse to carry it because it is an annoyance to do so, that it is something that we can get out of doing, and so we do, and the children, all too often OUR children, must bear it instead.
So we make up reasons that it must be done by them instead of us. We rationalize here, there, and everywhere to respond to the question of 'why?'
As Robert Heinlein so correctly put it, "Man is not a rational animal. He is a rationalizing animal." There is a world of difference between the two...