Spoiler- it’s not! Your body has responses to food intake. Insulin, blood sugar levels, other hormone levels, bile production, etc etc. so when you eat that one big meal- things spike. Your body response is drastic and sudden, then crashes and flatlines. You feel like shit and perform poorly. Long term you can develop health problems and of course... weight problems. Once you’ve put on the weight- not only is weight easier to gain, not only is it harder to lose, but you’re now in a bad place to be for someone who couldn’t live healthy to start because if you couldn’t do it before- now it’ll be a real pain in the butt.

You see- you’d think that eating a single meal a day would do the trick if it had all your daily needs. It doesn’t. Things like simple carbs (cheap and in lots of “junk food”) digest faster. Your body absorbs those approves and nutrients. If you don’t need those for energy at that moment- your body stores them. Complex carbs, fiber, long chain protein- more expensive. Slower digesting. So if you eat 2500 calories of breadsticks at 7am and nothing else- most of the day you’ll be hungry and low on energy. You’ll feel lethargic and generally not have good mental or physical performance- and what’s more, if that’s all you eat you’ll be deficient in key nutrients. If only that were it!

While cheap calorie high foods may contain your days CALORIES, they seldom contain all the nutrients you need. So to get daily needs for essential macro nutrients (not to mention micro nutrients, vitamins, minerals, etc..) you’ll go over your allotment of calories before hitting your needs. But if ONLY that were it...

Regrets are funny things. You might regret “letting that one go” for the rest of your life. No amount of money or success can buy back a persons love. You might stay with them and end up regretting not going after the other thing. Hindsight tends to leave “what if’s..” Its probably better odds to take the scholarship and ditch the relationship- but if they get married and have a good life together perhaps he isn’t such an idiot after all? We are what we make of ourselves.

There is something to be said about not “giving up your dreams” or “sacrificing opportunities” for love, but the reverse is true too. It really comes down to what you want to invest in with your life. If an opportunity is worth more than your relationship to you or not- and if it is, you have your answer. Even married folk face these choices. No one can say “if it’s true love it will survive being apart <a few months, years, etc...>” because that’s not how relationships work. Some can survive long distance and some can’t. Some can be reconnected later and some can’t.

Tl:dr- is it disrespectful for you to argue with your parents? No. But also yes. It depends. As you mature they have to realize you’ll be relying on your own judgment in life. As you demonstrate responsibility they should show you increasing amount of respect and trust. But ultimately up until you are an independent adult, there are times they will just know more, and even if you THINK it makes no sense they just aren’t interested in arguing- things are the way they are and they just need you to go along. That said- even when one argues there are times and ways to be respectful or not.

That means teens HAVE to push boundaries. They HAVE to argue and rebel in general if those around them (like parents) seek to rob them of autonomy. The parent child relationship is dynamic. To see you as on somewhat equal terms a parent must see you take on responsibility, they must trust your judgment and ability to get results. So it’s almost inevitable there will be some conflict as you transition to a self realized independent person. It’s the awkward stage memes so love to discuss. Faulting is hard, lack of instructions on being an adult, realizing that being an adult isn’t what you thought, and so on.

Now- once one becomes a young adult this get murky. The fundamental processes of an adult brain are in place as early as 12. While context and experience may or may not be lacking, you’re a naive adult in a tiny body with little autonomy and legal rights. Compounding this- in short order the world will begin to expect adult things of you and apply adult consequences to you. You can’t treat a person as a drone for 17 years and then expect them to wake up after midnight in a single day as a functional adult.

Even if you remove all this- you are a guest to a host. Your parent feeds, clothes, shelters etc. you. In return you are asked for compliance to their rules and wishes within reason. The simple fact that the person who gave you life and likely everything you have in the world and support wishes it is a pretty compelling argument that one should, put if respect for those things, comply.

To do otherwise is to say you trust yourself more than you trust them. Now- parents and kids often keep things from each other. One knows things the other does not. The issue of blind trust is wether or not you believe the other person is asking you to do something that seems off because they know something you don’t that applies to the situation.

The respect between parent and child is strongly based on roles- a parent doesn’t treat a child as a coparent nor does a child treat a parent as another child. A parent is a teacher and a guardian. They should explain things to a child and discuss things with that child, why a decision was made etc. HOWEVER- the position of authority is one of trust and leadership. When a leader cannot or will not for reasons of time, privilege, etc. divulge information to a subordinate- if the subordinate trusts and respects the superior they will comply with the instructions given.

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Nah. Partial credit for partial facts.
Concise.

Yeah. Or not enough. Who knows. It’s relative I suppose. I guess we will just have to see and take it on a case by case.

Well- it’s 2019, so “the man’s wife” whom noted that her car wasn’t given the same special treatment as his- might be a “he.” I shouldn’t assume gender. *”the wife”

Nicely done.

Yeah. I mean- this is what? The 447th time the media has tried to equate video games to violence and the 9000000000th time the media has come after some popular entertainment or medium claiming it’s linked to some “moral panic” or “social epidemic”? What we create reflects us and what we consume may or may not influence us. I’m just as sure that SOMEONE in the world could be instigated to violent acts by a game as a person can be led by a book or movie. That is to say- a person takes what they want to take from a creative work.

AND HERES THE KICKER, cherry on top if you will. ON THIS VERY SITE- I’ve debated people or read posts from people who deny cultural appropriation even exists, or who say it’s overblown, yet many of those same people have spoken against race swapping using the same arguments and language that applies to... culture all appropriation. Huh... Things are different when you are in that position aren’t they? So perhaps put yourself in the position of a person who has a 1/10 chance of seeing someone like them in media AT ALL as a main character, and maybe it will make more sense.

The Bible and it’s various re tellings, artistic reproductions etc tend to turn a bunch of Arabs and Hebrews and Africans into Europeans and the like. The list goes on and on and on. The point is- there was some but very little opposition to “race swapping” when it went the other direction. Many people who oppose “race swapping” currently are the same people who would have dismissed or mocked those speaking against it when it was characters of other races being made “anglicized” but now that “white” characters are being made POC? Well.... now a lot of people are upset by “race swapping” aren’t they?

It’s also a bit hypocritical is it not? Considering that pop culture and film has borrowed from the works past and present of other cultures. Many times being direct and often almost shot for shot rip offs. Raid redemption was used as a template for Dredd, old boy was a Korean film, Black Swan was Perfect Blue, The Departed was taken from a Chinese film called Infernal Affairs, The lake house, Even lion king is almost shot for shot with Kimba the white lion. That’s without taking influences and themes etc etc. the matrix was largely inspired by foreign film and fiction and shaped American film making. Spaghetti westerns and the like we’re often taken from Japanese folklore.