On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:25:35 -0400, BAR wrote:

Yep, mistakes happen. And different people have different smart
choices they make. When someone else makes a different choice than
I do about, say, home ownership - that doesn't mean he's dumber than I
am - nor that I'm dumber than he is.

Who is responsible for yours or his incorrect choices?

That isn't my concern - I just don't care for someone saying that
someone else is dumb for not making my choice. If a generation
doesn't buy homes the way ours did doesn't mean that this generation
is dumber than ours.

And if every generation when it gets as old as I am, observes that the
new generations are dumber than we were - that the Right choices were
made by my generation (not the previous generations), I figure that
maybe this time isn't different. A century or two from now, they
won't notice the unique downturn that is so obvious to us.

It isn't so much that they are dumber, they just make decision that we
wouldn't make.

Which is the point I was trying to make, to a response that said they
are dumber because they don't buy houses as much as we did.

--
"In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found,
than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."

- James Madison