Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

Too often I hear adult-to-child language used in discussions of adult privacy.

If you aren’t doing anything wrong, you shouldn’t care if I’m watching.

This is what parents tell small children. I heard it often as a child and I said it often as a parent of then small children.

It seems to be part of the human condition that we transfer adult-to-child words when we move into an adult-to-adult world.

That is too bad. The above is not what adults tell adults in a free society. So if we find persons over 18 years of age telling other persons over 18 years of age the above either someone has stopped being an adult or the society has stopped being free