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There are equally as many people that run rough shod over everything because they'll just ask their techie friend/family member to fix whatever broke for them.

Whether one falls into this camp, or the camp that you're talking about is probably just up to personality types.

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Inappropriately applied dichotomy, my brotha. "Figure it out yourself and lead" vs. "Manipulate someone else into doing it for me" ---- a lot of people would rather do it themselves if it were easy enough.

Maybe, but I was talking about the fear of screwing up that the parent was talking about. Some people have no fear of screwing up, even when doing things that probably should make them at least cautious, because they have the view that someone else will fix it for them.

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