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It’s a childish ideology of “give me what I want and shield me from the consequences “. Why wouldn’t children like it? Add in the total abdication of responsibility by parents who should have taught their kids to know better and you have our current mess.
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It's a little more complex than that.
It IS a childish ideology.
It's sort of like when my 5 year old son saw a homeless person panhandling - "We should help him" was his initial response.
That's because 5 year olds - and 20 year olds - don't understand moral hazards and don't bear any of the cost of "helping", so "helping" validates their altruistic impulses while they are shielded / insulated from bearing any of the cost.
It's actually pretty rational in the limited context where the positions are taken, which is steeped in ignorance of greater consequences.
What's the inevitable result of giving poor single mothers free money and not lower income nuclear families free money? You destroy the lower income nuclear family.
What's the inevitable result of giving illegal aliens that are already here, amnesty? You encourage more illegal immigration, since if you gave amnesty once, you'll do it again.