I didn’t say 19 year olds are worthless or cowardly. I said they don’t know enough to lecture others on politics and morality.
At 12, I had enough courage to get beaten up by a half-dozen other kids for standing up for what I believed. But I had no business telling others about life, not at 12, 19, or 30.
I am old. I know lots of old people. I lived in Florida for years and now live in Allegheny County Pennsylvania, the second oldest population in America. I am an expert on old, and sir I can tell you that age don’t make you smart.
Criticize a person’s ideas based on facts and logic or even faith, if that what drives you, but by God don’t discount their ideas just because you’re older. Ever heard the expression, no fool like and old fool?