ratonmono2 wrote: ↑08 May 2026 21:39 pm
skilles wrote: ↑08 May 2026 17:36 pm
DoneLurking wrote: ↑08 May 2026 17:21 pm
Wow. Um. I don’t think anyone is going to change your mind on this.
Well no, what I just said is based on facts. I'm not going to decide its not true based on someones opinion.
Every human being lacks morals at that age, the part of the brain that causes that matures years before the part of the brain that regulates it matures.
Its designed to make humans break family bonds, take huge risks, reproduce, and all kinds of behavior our modern society deems immoral. That is why teenagers are idiots. Then most of them turn into decent people and become functioning members of society somewhere around early-mid 20s when the prefrontal cortex fully matures/develops and regulates that behavior.
The only real difference is they have learned/been taught to be fake and act/talk like they have morals long before that so society will like/accept them.
This does not just apply to the boys....it applies to the female as well.
I don't know nearly enough about the situation to know who was in the wrong or not, but development of the prefrontal cortex alone doesn't work for explaining the scope of human behavior. Human beings do not lack morals from teen years through late 20s, they tend to lack self-regulation and risk evaluation that is found in fully developed adult brains. They know right from wrong by then except in extreme personality disorder cases. Socialization also plays a key factor in development. The amount of privilege afforded to young male athletes is just as much a factor in shaping their behaviors and explaining how things like this keep occurring. Especially when the adults who are there to guide these young men so often themselves are the products of a toxic socialization process which has long swept things like this under the rug and/or normalized it. There's as much if not more blame to go into the foundations of how we socialize these kids in conjunction with their athletics positions, as there is a problem with their still developing brains.
Well to be honest if everyone was consenting age and consented its not really up to you or I to decide if it was right or wrong.
As far as the rest morals are a subjective concept which is why I said they lack what modern society considers moral. Its not the PFC alone, its the order in which the brain/body develops giving them the desire to take risk, reproduce, defy the rules and many other things modern society deems immoral before the PFC gives them the development to regulate such behavior.
This does not at all just happen with privileged kids or elite athletes, this happens at HS and College parties all over the place. It is simply brought to light more when certain people do it and it is very much (100%) related to the order in which the brain/body develops. Musicians probably being the biggest culprit and it doesn't matter at all if they are rich or poor or privileged. It matters if they can find a female that will let them do it which happens more if they are elite athletes, musicians etc. These people are not more prone to this behavior as much as they have more opportunity to do it.
The PFC also plays a huge role in modifying behavior based on anticipated outcomes (rewards/consequences)
In short the human body produces all kinds of hormones before it produces a brain capable of regulating them and that is why teenagers do all kinds of [shirt] deemed immoral....male and female.
Many human behaviors society has deemed immoral and even illegal are in direct conflict with the way the human body and brain works.