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I'm not pro child and I'm not a child myself, at least by age, but you make it sound like children should just fall in line and be mindless servants. Half the stuff you listed I think are improvements to my upbringing.
Respecting elders is bullshit after a point. Respect everyone, but elders don't deserve some specialty treatment. I have never stood when someone enters a room except for a bride at a wedding or to greet that person. There are very few people that deserve people to stand on arrival, and for everyone of them, it depends on the setting. Nobody always gets a standing arrival. Contradiction is healthy within reason. Asking question and countering statements isn't bad when it's honest.
All that said, there are definitely traits that I think are bad with today's youths, but they aren't worse than previous generations, just worse in different things. For example, I bet less kids today smoke cigarettes compared to 10 years ago.
Edit: I guess that's a "woosh" on me. I thought that it read a bit on the nose, but I wasn't familiar with the OG material. That's on me, but I agree with the intended sentiment.
It’s a quote that gets attributed to Socrates showing that the issue of one generation complaining about the following generation is a tradition as old as time itself
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/63219-the-children-now-love-luxury-they-have-bad-manners-contempt
The user you replied to is repeating a fairly well known and old quote, not directly arguing that children behave as servants. It's a quote that gets used a lot in discussions about "kids these days", the point of sharing it is usually to demonstrate that adults have always said this about children, and thus also to imply that the kids really haven't gotten significantly worse in the present generation, people just think they have because they remember themselves or previous generations as kids through the lens of nostalgia or such.
I think it's more that most of us don't remember ourselves as kids.
I remember myself as a kid, I was an asshole. My friends were assholes. We were only slightly restrained by the fact that we had no internet so our assholery was contained withing the limited physical space we could access.