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Originally posted by sugar and spice
No offense to your professor, DeltAlum, but his way of looking at things is pretty naive. I have friends in the military, and they have their own problems with maturity -- they have trouble relating to people in adult ways or making adult decisions because they spent four years doing exactly what they were told, a lot of them struggle with immediate gratification versus what would be beneficial in the long-term because, for a while, they were in a situation where they HAD to focus on the short-term. The military breeds its own problems with emotional maturity. (And I say that with love because a lot of these people are still really good kids -- but that's the problem; most of them are still just KIDS even at 23 or 24.) I also work with a lot of people who went straight into the work world before college or instead of it, and as a rule, they aren't any more mature than their college counterparts. Those kids in the military and those who spent the years from 18-22 working are still just as dumb as the kids in college, and they're drinking, doing drugs, and doing stupid stuff just as often.
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I don't agree with you at all. yeah. there are kids that are going to be people that drink and do drugs, shit i'm guilty, but you will never convince me that people who have served in any kind of combat divison for multiple years lacks maturity in any way shape of form. I know people that are my age, 21, that are in the special forces, army rangers, and the marines.....and they are all light years ahead of me or any of my friends in terms of emotions, maturity, and ability to make right decisions. They are the most mature people I have ever met in my life.