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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla
Ibby is under eighteen, AFAIK. I'm fifty. I remember being seventeen, vividly I think. I remember being a boy before I was a man, and I remember how I thought as a boy, and how differently I thought as a man.
He's going to have to make the discovery that I'm the good guy for himself. Since he's not warped, merely not yet mature enough to impress a grizzled oldster with his maturity [edit: especially not just now -- I posted this before I read his two mini-rants, and I'm laughing as I type], and not unintelligent either, I think it is within his capacity to make the aforesaid discovery. I'm patient.
And I'm minded of what Mr. Dubois said of Johnny Rico in the Heinlein novel Starship Troopers.
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So, Ibram's not old enough to think you're an asshole? I'm an adult--I'll co-sign for him: You're an asshole.