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I find that all very interesting. I used to work with behaviorally disordered kids for about 15 years and that was an observation I made repeatedly. So often the 13, 14, 15, 16 year old kids just wanted what they wanted and were willing to sacrifice so much of their or others rights in an attempt to get what they wanted. It was common to be restraining an out of control child/teen and to hear him saying "I want to get up" as if his wanting to not be restrained made any difference at all and his recent attempt to knock someone's brains out was irrelevant. They struggled so hard against the acceptance that being civilized and respecting the rights of others would gain them more freedom and they continued in self-destructive patterns continually pursuing their own wants even at the expense of their own freedoms. As a Christian I can see this as rebellion, not so much against society and self but against God, as a player in a secular field we called it "acting-out" or Oppositional Disorder or whatever. The kids rarely got what they wanted manifestly but they usually got what they wanted spiritually; they could sit in a padded room or lay strapped to a gurney and proclaim proudly that they did not succumb.