I find that many post from older players are using the word "Immature". I find this to be such a strong word, I'm not pointing any fingers, but people(Leftley) are saying 13 year olds are immature, which I take as reffing to every 13 year old. Now I turned 13 years old a few months ago, and I understand that maturity doesn't come from age, only from experience. If you believe someones immature, that is your buisness, no need to set it as a total age class, just say a group of "Immature" people. Everyone is "Immature" at certain times in their life, and at certain moment, but there is no need to judge.
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im·ma·ture Pronunciation Key (m-tyr, -tr, -chr)adj.
Not fully grown or developed. See Synonyms at young.
Marked by or suggesting a lack of normal maturity: silly, immature behavior.
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 Mar 16 2002, 9:01 pm
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Mar 17 2002, 5:51 am
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We don't need the definition to immature, I'm 13 and I'm quite sure I'm the youngest person able to get on to the TE boards. I did not take that offensively on account that I do not try to impress people by doing immature things so I know it wasn't shot right at me.
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According to the definition you just posted, though, you are immature, unless you're fully grown and developed at the age of thirteen. Nothing wrong with that... everyone goes through a period of physical immaturity (unless, like me, they sprung full-grown from the skull of Zeus). Mental and emotional maturity, on the other hand, is a different issue. People do mature on these sides at varying rates. You might thirteen physical years of age... but at the same time, you may be more mature or less mature than those years alone would signify.
Simple rule of thumb... if someone's talking about immature people, they're probably talking about the mental/emotional side, and if you're not immature in those ways, then they're not talking about you. | |
OK, so I have been making dangerous generalities, sure. But I have not been saying that 13-year-olds are by necessity immature. Making reference to "immature 13-year-olds" is a qualified statement; it refers to the subset of 13-year-olds which are immature. The implication is there, which you've got every right to object to, but there's a difference between saying "there are immature 13-year-olds" and "all 13-year-olds are immature."
However, I should point out that, in my book, caring about individuals' maturity levels is one of the less mature things you can do--I consider my condemnation of the immature one of the least mature things I do, as apparently do you--but I also think that cries to be recognized as mature are generally a sign that someone is not a fully mature, responsible person. Sure, that's not so much a problem, because very few people actually are (I'm not); the problem as I see it with saying that a significant proportion of 13-year-olds are immature isn't that it's inaccurate but that it ignores the fact that a significant proportion of everyone else also is immature. | |
