Freedom of Opinions???

Do older and more experienced people belittle the opinions and thoughts of "younger people" (such as ages from teens-29)???

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some do some dont

Originally posted by ash007
Do older and more experienced people belittle the opinions and thoughts of "younger people" (such as ages from teens-29)???

No not really but if younger ppl don't have a good argument in an opinion and thoughts then we don't pay attention to them 😉

lol you should correct them and tell them why their argument is not good

Nah! let their teachers correct them......I mean thats why they get pay for 😉

Yeah they do!!! My mom was tellin me this story about how when she was in high school, her brother Sherwood tried to correct a chemistry teacher when he was wrong about something. My uncle was right, and the teacher knew it cos it was pretty obvious but he didn't like being wrong so he kicked him out. Oh and another thing. WHY CAN'T PEOPLE UNDER 18 VOTE?!!! WE WOULDN'T HAVE THIS IDIOT FOR PRESIDENT IF EVERYBODY IN MY GENERATION HAD BEEN ALLOWED TO VOTE!!!!!

Unfortunately yes. Younger people often have more insight to the world than the current ruling generation, due mostly to fear and prejudice. It's times like this, with Gulf War II and George Bush that make me ashamed to be an American.

I agree completely--this is the first time in my life when I could honestly say that I'd rather be Canadian than American. I'm glad I live in this little hippie town I wouldn't want to live anywhere else in the US right now.
Plus this whole "No Child Left Behind" thing is a load of crap!! Did you know that resource (err... special) kids and kids who just moved here and don't know English have to pass the same tests as all the others?

You'd be hard-pressed to find any sympathy in America. You either with us or we invade, that's the American standpoint

older people always think they're wiser...doesn't make it truth

older people are in most cases wiser due to experience

finti is right 113

the old believe everything, the middle aged suspect everything and the young know everything 😄

i got told by the RS department at my school that my OPINIONS were wrong and i backed up my arguments with evidence, but just becausemy evidence was based on science and not religion i was wrong and0 for my essay ..... now that's discriminatory....though that may not be to do with my age......*thinks*

it's about them having an other mentality,

we base everything on science they on ...er ... well, a creature they believe in that no one ever saw and still has no proof it ever existed 😖

so religion's theory is more valid? 😛

according to them...yes
accorrding to the majority of the world these days... not by a long shot

*applauds*

Originally posted by finti
older people are in most cases wiser due to experience

I think its more the case that educated people belittle stupid people, regardless of their age.

There's a difference between "uneducated" or "ignorant" people and "stupid" people... Personally I find it to be the other way around very often... I have never in my life teased an uneducated or stupid person (well except for Bush...) because I'm "smarter" than them. I think people tend to dislike individuals who aren't afraid to show that they're smart. Take Al Gore for example. He is quite simply brilliant, yet America chose the idiot instead of him to be president. He is also humble, experienced with politics, and a good leader in general. Bush is none of the above.