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To: bentway who wrote (749419)	10/25/2013 12:11:34 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1574827

Teenagers can be complete idiots. You spent your money better than that kid did. LOL.

To: bentway who wrote (749419)

10/25/2013 2:17:44 PM

From: SilentZ

Respond to of 1574827

Teenagers can be complete idiots. You spent your money better than that kid did.

But they're teenagers. Whether you or I or racist store clerks think it's smart or not, teenagers do that. Which is what the relatively new, but vitally important field of behavioral economics is about. It's not about what we think it's best for people to do, it's what they're most likely to do on a macro scale, and how to deal with it.

Kinda like the fact that whether conservatives think it's bad or not, most teens are going to have sex. We know that telling them not to do it is futile, but that if we want fewer teenage pregnancies and people transmitting STDs, sex ed works to a pretty good extent.

Lots of teens are going to buy stupid things, but if on a macro scale we try to train our cops so they don't go along with a racist store clerk's prejudices, we'd have fewer incidences of this sort of thing. Cops don't have to be racist. Kids do, for whatever biological reason, have to try to impress their friends.

-Z