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23-Year-Old Elon Musk Rep Granted Energy Dept. IT Access Without Security Clearance
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Every person is different. But on average, younger people are easier to trick. As are the elderly. The former lacks experience. The latter loses faculties.
It's ageist to pre judge a ~person~ based on age. It's not ageist to understand the progression of the human mind.
You wouldn't say it's ageist that babies are easy to trick, would you?
Maybe. See, you assume this person has a full comprehension of what's he's doing, why he's doing it, and the historical context around what musk is doing. You assume he's all-in on being a fascist.
You're assuming this guy is a genius who spent his time learning programming and history and politics. And from there he decided that he'll help overthrow a government.
I remember being that age, and apparently I wasn't as smart because I just learned programming by then. It took will into my 30s to start to understand social issues and into my 40s to start to get politics. I worked for a very evil corporation because the money was good, and never gave it a second thought.
If we knew the guy's name we could look him up online and see if his posts are more "well researched Nazi" or "easily fooled lonely edgelord". But if I had to put money on it, I'm betting it's the latter.
His age is only relevant if you care about the how or the why. You seem to care only about the what.
Which is fine. But the how and why matter if we want to prevent more of this. For example, to me this shows we need to teach history and politics better in technical colleges.