Example from previous generation?

[A Scanner Darkly]

Does anyone know of an example meeting the following requirements:

* People around the age of 50 now, in their youth at the time
* Fighting their parents about something we now know to favor the side of the kids (such as the case will hopefully be 30 years from now about marijuana)

So, basically, something like arguing with your parents about how slavery is wrong, back in the day when everyone thought it was OK, but for people who are now 50, like I said.

I hope that makes sense :stoned:


This is all so I can go "this is just like when you fought for ______ when you were my age."

[birdgirl73]

I'm 45. Big issues like slavery, racial equality, civil rights and equal rights for women were issues my parents always stood on the correct side of. There were no fights with them about issues that now would clearly be the domain of kids, unless you count free love or possibly premarital sex, which we kids supported and which they tended to frown on.

Mostly when I was a kid I fought with them about the same stuff my kid and others fight with us today about. Freedom to do whever I wanted. Privileges like staying out all night (a big no-no). The right to smoke cigarettes or dope or drink even though I was under age. Whether or not it was OK to have sex before marriage. The age-old classics, I'm afraid. They were cool on the big social issues. It was the home-based teenage freedom issues that they were so tough on.

[jdmarcus59]

long hair

[Oneironaut]

Bestiality. No wait...

[Gatekeeper777]

having individual rights and freedoms unabridged by a paranoid state.:D :stoned:

[A Scanner Darkly]

Well, I stood my ground. It's hard when they're not open to any new information and just believe all the lies they were told.

I think I did pretty well; the punishment for being busted is as simple as "we know we can't stop you, but we don't want you doing it in the house." So, not too bad.