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And this feel-goodism causes serious long-term harm. It's better to discipline people displaying rogue behavior when they're young. This feel-goodism just pushes the consequences to when these people get old, and they end up in prison, unemployed, working dead-end jobs, or something similar...at that point no one cares because they assume the person is an adult that can take care of themselves.


Not to mention that behaviors become more ingrained with age.




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