--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <authfriend@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray27" <steve.sundur@> wrote: > (snip) > > > It has been suggested here, that a person does not have full > > > brain development until they are 25. And I think the part of > > > the brain that is not fully developed, IIRC is that part > > > which evaluates the future consequences of our actions. I am > > > just putting that out there as one thing to consider. > > > > If that has "been said here," it runs contrary to most > > literature on child-rearing. According to those authors, > > children develop the empathy to feel the effects of their > > actions on others and the ability to control actions that > > might negatively affect others at age six. If these guys > > hadn't gotten it down by their age, there is something > > wrong with them. End of story. > > Ooooopsie! Not quite the end: > > "The per [sic]-frontal cortex, the one we need to imagine consequences for > our actions is not fully developed until > 24-26. Kids in college literally do not have the hardware > to always be responsible in their behavior. They lose > site [sic] of the future and get lost in the present." > > --Curtisdeltablues, 3/8/12 > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/337423 > > Actually, of course, there's no conflict at all between > what Curtis said and what Barry says. Barry claims there > is by the simple expedient of interpreting "not fully > developed" to mean "completely undeveloped." > > But then, he considered it entirely within his rights to > distort a comment made, he assumed, by a TMer, in order > to slam the purported TMer. > > Unfortunately, it turns out that the original comment was > made by Barry's great pal, Curtis. I'm sure Curtis won't > mind Barry's distortion, though.
I just read your post now. I was lazy and didn't quote the post or post number but you did all the work for me and way before I got to it myself. I may be a bit younger in years than you Ms Judy, but you're twice as fast. > > <snicker> >
