[coliveira]

You forget that every young person will become old later (if alive). That's what they consider when looking at the future.

[dukeyukey]

Old people have had a lifetime of experience and opportunity to build themselves up for old age. Young people have had nothing, and without that opportunity, they'll be reduced to (metaphorically) cannibalising the next generation.

[coliveira]

What a simple minded and reductionist way of thinking...