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And on the fourth day he rocked a Samurai concert

Given that this has moved from discussing the topic to personal attacks, I’d say this conversation has run its course.

I guess so. If you wanted to fake a reaction you could choose to, so the opposite must be true too, right? Choice happens at different levels, and most the choices we make happen at a level outside the conscious mind so quickly we wouldn’t register them as choices

Well, isn’t that the question of the ages.

Each generation wants to know why the next is getting it so wrong!

Its mostly good news on that front, from a psychology point of view. Perhaps the best lens is to use developmental models to answer your question, though I will say the assumptions in your question are only partially true. Your own experience might be giving you the impression it’s “most”

If we consider developmental needs, child take a long journey from being totally dependant at birth to being totally independent, usually by their early twenties on average.

Individual stories vary but one part of that process of individualization is pushing back and creating friction between the existing power structures and themselves.

It’s why teenagers are so famously, and seemingly, unnecessarily hostile especially to parents and authority.

Its a short answer to a complex question, does that give you something to go on?

Its a part of growing up, happens in every generation, even if it looks a bit different each time

Yeah, totally.

I laugh at my hayfever, through the sneezing and the coughing. My husband gets angry.

So we have very different levels of “suffering” to the same experience.

Good example, thanks.

I’d say they are choices, just not concious choices.

You can demonstrate this by noticing the way different people have different reactions to the same experiences or events.

Easiest to see in people because of the greater awareness and agency but it applies to cows too because they’re smart enough to have individual personalities

And the less said about the cream corn the better

I’m a psychotherapist. And I train others in the field too, from entry to degree level.

Freedom no, that’s not a binary state.

Free will? Yes. They have the capacity to react to their environment. The veal cow’s sadness and suffering are evidence of the free will to react.

Which is also free.

I dunno. I switched careers 10 years ago, and I have some good years and some bad years for my income but I still love it and wouldn’t want to do anything else.

A proper “I’d still do this if I was rich” job. Still, I really do need and appreciate time off from it to recharge.

I was warned it’s easier to burn out doing something you love because you won’t want to stop even when you can, and it’s true.

Are under estimating how many people are interested in that?

There’s a ton of versions of “a Christmas Carol” but Scrooged is absolutely worth a watch despite the age.

The ghosts are all fantastic and you can’t go wrong with Bill Murray

The classic is “big boys don’t cry”

Masculine social standard. Personally painful and shaming for a lot of guys

Where’s that legal? Salt Lake City?

Fair enough. If they’re cash poor, grabbing one of those cheap games consoles is a good plan. 😟

Looks like someone cast “Escape Velocity”, which I think is a druid spell.

For a lot of games, yes. They provide the infrastructure for communication and connection.

Its why you can, for example, send an invite in AOE via the in-game system or the steam system.

Its why so many games show your steam name and avatar in the multiplayer menus.

You surprised to hear this?