I don't think you necessarily disagree as much as not seeing your own child as the outlier they are. When you surround yourself with others who are willing to do bare minimum amounts of research to find an answer, it's easier to act like it isn't a problem.

Yet, I live in a country where massive amounts of people are rejecting things that are insanely simply to research and to prove like the efficacy of vaccines, for instance, or whether Donald Trump is a grifting buffoon. These people have no interest whatsoever in doing research that will undermine what they've already chosen to believe. Motherfucker we have flat earthers out here building rockets to "prove" the earth is flat. Even some of the ones who do research, like the flat earthers, just move the goalposts and don't seem to learn when science proves them wrong.

The sad reality is that if there are simple answers in front of them, most people won't look for harder ones. I simply think your child is an outlier in being willing to do any amount of research on things they are interested in. For many people it's incredibly hard to get them to even consider doing such a thing.

[–] Misconduct@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I think you're also basing your opinion on your limited world view. Morons have been anti vaccine since they were invented that's absolutely not even remotely new. Honestly most of your complaints can been seen throughout history in various forms because it's all just human stuff. I would caution you to try to avoid this thinking if possible because, frankly, it's some boomer shit. You picking up a sense of superiority and dunking on "kids these days" is just following the same pattern of every generation before you with slightly updated complaints.

I'd love to see humanity as a whole grow out of it and realize that the "kids these days" are just inexperienced people navigating the world exactly like we did. They have similar AND different challenges that they're reacting to. Many of them behave exactly like you would if you were born in the same gen.