GP of the post or actual GP.....
It's not about being thick. I had a old person ranting at me once because all these Ukrainian girls were emailing him wanting dates, and didn't they realise he was too old for them.
The one recalling an event with their mother.
Your experience with a old person is not their experience with their mother.
Can you not project your own experiences on someone's else's?
You claim someone's else's reasoning is wrong based on *your* opinion and past, without anything that would support the relevance in *their* case.
Your experience is valid but irrelevant in that case. Don't project.
How should I engage with young children? Should I talk to a 2 year old like an adult? Or should I use my experience other 2 year old to inform how I should engage with other 2 year olds?
Older people can be surprisingly tech illiterate to a degree many would be surprised by. That is my experience, that is others experience. Yes there will be exceptions. But I don't think that invalidates the generalisation.
Personally I would hope that people would make an extra effort to educate those needing extra help in spotting potential fraud, rather than doing nothing to avoid 'projecting'.