Growing up is hard to do - by Heather Heying

So wrote Immanuel Kant in 1784, claiming his words to be the motto of enlightenment. Kant further points out that relying on others to do your thinking for you—outsourcing your decisions to people who claim to be experts—may be easy, but it is not mature. “It is convenient to be immature! If I have a book to have understanding in place of me, a spiritual advisor to have a conscience for me, a doctor to judge my diet for me, and so on, I need not make any efforts at all. I need not think, so long as I can pay; others will soon enough take the tiresome job over for me.” I need not think, so long as I can pay. Ask yourself, if you will, what you are paying for the ease of not having to think for yourself. I posit that many are paying not just with dollars, but with their health, and their morals, and their dignity. Indeed, in some cases, people have paid with their lives. The Enlightenment brought reason to the forefront of decision making for a world that was ready to be freed from outda

So wrote Immanuel Kant in 1784, claiming his words to be the motto of enlightenment. Kant further points out that relying on others to do your thinking for you—outsourcing your decisions to people who claim to be experts—may be easy, but it is not mature. “It is convenient to be immature! If I have a book to have understanding in place of me, a spiritual advisor to have a conscience for me, a doctor to judge my diet for me, and so on, I need not make any efforts at all. I need not think, so long as I can pay; others will soon enough take the tiresome job over for me.” I need not think, so long