I wrote about a two page post about fallacies that parents commit, in response to some kid bitching in the GMD Social forum, but my computer fucked up and I lost everything. I immediate rewrote a short notepad outline to jog my memory when I was eventually inspired to rewrite everything, but never followed through.
Anyway, while monoxide_child was unnecessarily rude in his critique, his argument is not baseless. Most of the criteria that correlate with parenthood are not disirable characteristics and from a qualitative standpoint are essentially the opposite of what would qualify one to cite themselves as an authority in an argument.
Regardless, many parents invariably cite their perceived househould dominance as an excuse to employ the "argument from authority" fallacy in any and every argument against their child(ren). Monoxide_child is correct in his skepticism of the legitimacy of this tactic, as it would not be permissable in any other context and therefore should be dismissed outright because it is indeed fallacious.
However, this is not an issue pertaining to the necessity (or not) of understanding prehistory, so perhaps I will create another thread for this topic when I'm feeling ambitious and have a few hours of free time to articulate my thoughts a bit more coherently.
Indeed off topic but I didnt waqnt to let your post go. You are applying a theory (by laymens def) while not considering that a parents use of athority is, well many things.
1. Comes from knowledge, generally first hand "been there, done that, not good idea"
2. Comes from concern, an inate human condition to have concern for offspring... same as its an inate condition for specific ages to rebel against parents or authority... are any bells ringing ?
3. Your scenerio, which is realistic, just not the "ONE and ONLY" often comes from being tired of pissing back and forth with a child over stuff covered in items 1&2.
"a mans gotta have better things to do with his time"
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not @ BMWG but everyone in general
believe me - most of you know how I hated school, failed miserably, pulled excellent grades in summer school, my father was the principle of my school and we would argue and argue about
"why did I have to be bored to tears for 180 days/6 months wne I could learn it to high 80's - mid 90's in 6 weeks flat?" Until he finally had to say "we are done talking about this" quite firmly. So fucking what, big fucking deal... his point was "Why didnt I just do good and quit the antics because I was going to screw up my life.... well guess what he was right and the little punk assed kid I was WAS WRONG!
Took me 20 years to see it.
Get over it, parents are parents, they have a job to do and dont need all the bull-shit to boot and still tolerate plenty, plenty you would not take from your own age group. You would be fists up all the way.