Alicorn comments on Let them eat cake: Interpersonal Problems vs Tasks - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Alicorn 10 October 2009 06:19:26PM *  1 point [-]

Confirmation in Catholicism is administered to children, who are less free to reject social expectations than most adults. Mormon missionaries have all reached the age of majority, and while there may be social consequences, they're a bit farther removed than "disappointment of parents on whom one is unavoidably materially dependent". I personally know multiple adult Mormon men who never went on a mission.