How is it that some people think of childhood, middle life and old ages as periods of great innocence, wisdom and all spiritual values, with only the youth being a stage for foolishness, sins and self-destruction?  :really-mad2:
  Just open a newspaper and see how they highlight all young criminals as if old criminals didn't exist!
  I have seen so many pamplets and books they gave us in the school when we were teenages. Testimonials, poems, clips etc. etc. to keep us from evil, all sharing this presupposition: "a young person has a big tendency to sin.
  Mothers were shown as wise, tactful goodwilling pure and angelic ones who were doing their best to keep young females (read irrational, shameless and dirty) from ruining themselves with their own hands.
  Or an elderly man (champion of wisdom and self control) advising his son (illogical with animal instincts) to open his eyes....
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  Are all old people chaste? Aren't there any accounts of rape and child abuse by middle aged men?
  Aren't there mothers who cheat their husbands? Does the halo of holiness hide their sins?
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Osama Bin Laden was old and he was neither chaste nor wise.

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