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This 11-Year-Old Racing Prodigy Is Breaking Records
Hmm, I partly agree.
Surely, what goes around comes around. Kids are people, too.
You do some shit to poke your kids in the feels, you'll have to live with the consequences.
However, I don't see the debt (owe).
People are free to make their own choices regarding their own affairs, and their personal part of any relationship with others.
People are free to dislike other people's choices.
Happiness/contentment is not a requirement, and no one else has to go out of their way to make whoever else happy.
-scheherazade
I would agree.....had they not allowed my brother to do all those dangerous things on their dime in front of me, but then denied me the opportunity to do them, even on my own dime.
Their favorite line used to deny me fair treatment was "we made that mistake with your brother, we aren't making it again with you."
They never once used that line on him, nor did they ever change the behavior they called a "mistake".
So I disagree. Parents owe their children love, honesty, and fairness (and food and shelter). Failing that, they should expect some well deserved bitterness later.
This 11-Year-Old Racing Prodigy Is Breaking Records
I race on my own dime.
Everything my parents thought was dangerous when I was a kid, I had to fund for myself after I was an adult.
My parents spent their money as they pleased.
I spend my money as I please.
Not angry about it. It's not like they owed me anything.
-scheherazade
I'm angry because, even though when my parents would ask 'what do you want to do when you grow up' I would always answer 'a race car driver', they wouldn't even let me drive a go cart as late as when I was 15 (note, they bought my brother a truck at 14 and got him a hardship license), and so I didn't get to race until I was nearly 30.....on my own dime.
This 11-Year-Old Racing Prodigy Is Breaking Records
Ouch. XA. ::cringe::
My condolences.
On the bright side, at least it's not a yaris?
-scheherazade
Why be angry? I'm angry as hell. But not at her....
I'm angry as hell at me for being so damn jealous of her.....
She gets to drive that and I'm stuck in an 04 scion XA......
This 11-Year-Old Racing Prodigy Is Breaking Records
Why even be angry?
Nothing wrong is happening here.
-scheherazade
This 11-Year-Old Racing Prodigy Is Breaking Records
"Starting as young children" is typical for professional racers.
In that regard, she is not advantaged (compared to her professional peers).
-scheherazade
greatgooglymoogly (Member Profile)
I think it's a matter of degree. Prior to WW1 (Or to say, around the turn of that century), the Jewish faithed presence was quite small. Roughly ~90% of the population was non-Jewish faithed. There was very little conflict prior to WW2, because prior to that, the immigrants purchased their land from the locals. As per the nature of humanity, the only conflict-free methods for transfer of property are : inheritance, trade/sale, or gift.
The League of Nations was inconsequential. As a result of WW1 Britain captured the territory of Palestine from its previous occupiers (Turks, by one title or another, dating back to the Roman empire), and by right of conquest could do as it pleases with it.
I refer to religious insularity, not genetic.
Yes, they are quite accepting of anyone with Jewish faith. Almost the entire Jewish faithed population in Israel, regarding this last century, is either immigrant, or born of said immigrants. The Jewish faithed population rose from around ~600k to ~7 million between 1947 and today. Even taking into account the rule of thumb 'population doubles every ~40 years', that would leave the population roughly 85% immigrant or children thereof.
Which in turn elucidates many of the issues at hand in modern times. Land prices are extreme, with more people than there is room for, so expanding for living room is a necessity. Hence colonial expansion into greater Palestine is inevitable. Further, the dramatic division in income equality puts a lot of social pressure on the government, which the government can further alleviate by expansion. A, because it can relocate those that can't afford to live in more expensive areas, and gives those people a place to busy themselves taking care of, and B, because the inevitable tensions that come from displacing the previous residents causes the government to serve as a protector from those unfortunates that were offended, which serves as a good distraction from other problems that the government isn't doing well to fix. Essentially, the same formula that nations have followed throughout history (Heck, Australia can thank its current existence for similar policies in Britain).
-scheherazade
The Jewish migration to Judea was happening well before WW2, with lots of conflict with the native population, acts of terror on both sides. The British had a mandate from the League of Nations to administer it and decided to allow this influx. And Israel isn't as insular as you believe, there is no racial purity test to prevent being "bred out of existence", they accept people who have no Jewish blood but have converted to Judaism.