"Why are you an atheist?"
"because I paid attention in science class."
Well let me confine maturity to one final definition for everybody; a definition that has never really changed, that it seems nobody has bothered to point out:
Maturity is basically your response to a situation, as perceived by society. It's got nothing to do with you. You have your values, your world views, your morals, your conscience, peer pressure, level of risk, mood, etc. Come up with some kind of formula that includes those variables, and it equates to how you'd respond to this universal 'situation'. For you, there is no level of maturity, because without other people, maturity does not exist; it does not matter. Without other people, you're just another animal, trying to survive. Society, which makes up the 'other people' are the ones who decide what is mature, and what is immature. Of course, sometimes you are society, and sometimes you are the person who is mature/immature.
If you can break it down that far, to bare bones; if you knew all that already, you know how to manipulate society. You know how to use their judgement, and weld it however you want. All it takes, is to know what society's variables to the equation would be, if they were put in the 'situation'.
Mwahahahahaha....
Seriously though, that's how it is. That's all it is.
Hoi Polloi!
Last edited by anachronistic; 31-07-08 at 06:16 PM.
Of course, this is why its sometimes 'okay' to kill someone. Say, by public stoning.
Second thoughts can generally be amended with judicious action; injudicious actions can seldom be recovered with second thoughts.
--Cyteen by C.J.Cherryh