Because society has decided parental rights override teenage autonomy. Runaway and they’ll call the cops, who will return you to them, or if they want to be asses, throw you in juvie. So you maliciously comply while expressing your utter disdain for them until you attain the age of majority, then you abandon them and move on with your life. At that point you become a wage slave, have to live somewhere, and much like Dark Helmet, realize you’re surrounded by assholes.
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fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 2 weeks agoWhy should someone put up with dickheads who aren’t worth it?
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lmmarsano@group.lt 2 weeks ago
Exactly: society is full of dickheads, then people fuss when they’re treated as who they are like they’re entitled to more.
TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s the “tradition”
We put up with our parents shit so now you get the same shit. But in a more mental health conscious society we understand passing on the shittiness to the next generation is abuse, not a right of passage. Also the whole worldwide lead poisoning from gas thing messed with a lot of peoples brain chemistry (allegedly)