Tomislav Ostojich wrote:
It's not their fault. Self-denial requires a well-developed prefrontal cortex, and that is the very last region of the brain to develop. In fact, it doesn't even finish developing until you're 26.
Consider "children are assholes" descriptive, not normative, if you like. In any case, they do not make good general moral models for adults (or for themselves).
Fighting to the death "the noonday demon" of Acedia.
My BooksIt is precisely “values” that are the powerless and threadbare mask of the objectification of beings, an objectification that has become flat and devoid of background. No one dies for mere values.~Martin Heidegger