Failure is a collective enterprise. If we as adults, parents and authority figures conspire to crush young people and smash their ambition to better themselves, and if we gaslight them incessantly enough over a period of years, there is a high probability that we will have ruined their lives. We have produced evil robots.
Succeeding in life is a do-it-yourself enterprise. We cannot save anyone else, but we can teach the young to esteem themselves, to learn about and practice self-realizing. These positive encouragements and reinforcements, strengthened by adults practicing what they preach, can inspire children to choose to live their best lives.
Being ruined is often an externally driven pressure upon suggestible youth who are eager to groupthink, to conform, to crow-please, and go with the flow in order that they may gain and keep high social standing with their peers, so external pressure is maximized and their stunted free will, rational consideration of consequences, and their consciences are operating on a subpar level.
Thus, group pressure can ruin people, but it cannot lift them up and make them self-improve, work, and grow. That can only occur for each separate child as an individual who chooses to bootstrap her way up to personal, moral, talent-enhancing victory.
Group or collective pressure can wreck people, but rarely motivates them to excel or upgrade themselves. Therefore, group influence is evil more than not.
Only the individual can save herself; only she can elect to take care of herself first and primarily, and then do other-care. She must decide to save herself, discipline herself, and become someone special and exceptional.
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