Bus Drivers Are Stupid

When did I say anything like the first sentence? If you thought that's what I meant by saying that I don't ask anything that I'm not capable of, you're wrong, that sentence refers to my asking them to not fight when they are angry. I'm not quite sure how you could read that any differently. I'm not asking them to be a master of their emotions. I'm clearly not even a master of my own emotions, just look at some of my older posts. I'm very impatient, tend to have a short temper, I'm not able to get myself out of a sad funk at all for the most part, my good mood will sometimes cause me to be crass in certain situations where a more emphatic reaction would be appropriate, and the same thing applies to my negative moods.

So as you can see I clearly don't have perfect control over my emotions, and I definitely have room for improvement, but does that mean that I will just shrug off all responsibility and foresight and fight someone when I am aggravated? no.

You don't need to be a "master" of anything to know that fighting in certain situations is not the proper way to handle a conflict.

I can't believe you think it's demanding to ask someone to have enough self control to not fight someone, that's the basics of self control, something everyone should have.

And I didn't say that her actions are justified by her intent. You asked what she had to lose, and I responded with an explanation for why she acted the way she did, I did not say she was right, in fact, I said the opposite.



tl;dr get over yourselves teenagers.
yeah, early teenagers acting emotionally are understandable, but once they reach about 16 it's time to assume some responsibility and self-control.

 

Let's drop the legal adult age to about 16 instead of 18.

 

so you're saying that it's acceptable for teenagers to act irresponsibly because they're teenagers so it's all cool, and that fighting someone over a trivial matter is acceptable because you are just shy of 18, but what does it matter, you're only 16, people will understand?

 

Not at all. I'm saying that they're not expected to be so responsible. I always tend to hear a phrase like "you're such responsible for your age!" or "what a mature young man" when referring to teenagers. It is emphasized because, by default, they're not expected to be entirely responsible. Otherwise, it wouldn't be so notable when they are. I'm on your side here, though. I believe that they all should, but at the same time, they're teenagers. If this was anime, they'd all swinging swords and shooting each other with lasers from their hands while the parents stay in the background running villages or something. But it's real life, so instead they just tend to be stupid.

 

I think a key thing you're missing here is that we're not condoning her actions. It isn't okay for kids to act out, but it's pretty much unavoidable that you will act in ways that will embarrass you as you grow older.
They both shouldn't have done a lot of the stuff they did, but they did, and that's just human nature.[DOUBLEPOST=1362714120][/DOUBLEPOST]

If this was an anime, they would be veterans of several wars and on their way to retirement

 

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Hilariously derailing one-liner.​