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I was about to wade in and call out today's youth as pansey-ass-snowflakes.

Then I read: "I like to describe it as some kids are growing up developmentally delayed, today’s 18-year-olds are like 12-year-olds from a decade ago. They have very little tolerance for conflict and discomfort, and COVID just exposed it.” " and I suddenly realized that I was just being pandered to.

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Are you being pandered to or is the author on to something? You don't get good at stuff without practice, conflict resolution, independence, adulting in general, the age at which people are able to start practicing these seems to always be creeping upward to the detriment of everyone except the single-issue do-gooders who get to decry success because there's less teens pregant, smoking or whatever their shtick is.

Do you believe this experience will affect your perception long-term? How?

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