[Cederfjard]

> I can assure you I know far more than both you and the parent comment how dangerous it is

Where does the confidence to make such an assertion come from? Simply by virtue of being a teenager yourself?

[burnished]

Don't you remember being that age? Even without ascribing personal traits like arrogance, its just hard to have had enough experience to understand the potential depths of your ignorance.

[silisili]

Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes, attributed to Twain but surely not -

"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years."