| | THANK you, everybody. I'm deeelighted with the responses.
Kat- ARHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! I'm not the girl!!!!!!!!!!
Tabby - The parents think the girl is evil because they think she's just going to "use" him, if you know what I mean, that is, just for the sake of a casual fling. Of course their intentions are good and all, but I think they should just leave the boy alone and let him live life his way, for heaven's sake. Ok, so maybe hormones trump reason and all that, but since there's no serious physical relations between the two (other than kissing, for heaven's sake), none of them is going to be hurt. My point is that both of them recognize the risks they are taking, but are enough aware of their own strength thus making it an acceptable risk. The boy isn't going to get the girl pregnant, no matter what. But why does the girl have to prove herself to the parents? And of course the girl, (and the boy,) being the reckless daredevils that they are, do not care at all - in the absolute sense - about how the parents may see her, so long as they get what they want (in this case, each other). And as someone else mentioned, how are they assured of life? I hate to bring in this touch of non-absolutism, though it isn't really that, but tomorrow a goddamn tsunami could just come and flood the life out of them, and then their life would be a waste, with nothing at all to speak of. No social issues come in at all. No caste things and all. That's what I meant by "ideal" - the parents are otherwise very unbiased, etc. Their claim against the boy is that he does what he wants to do, when he wants to do it, and that he lives in absolute freedom, which, of course, is what the girl loves.
J - Yes, the boy may decide it, but he has the character to know that even if he thinks the price was too high, there's nothing he can do about it then, and that certainly he thought it was worth it when he was doing it.
MEM - all I can say is - better to have lived and lost, than having not lived at all.
Adam - as earlier stated, the boys' parents are absolutely not open to rationality.
Teresa - the boy's parents had a love marriage. They proudly relate their own adventures to their children, yet irrationally oppose it when the boy does something similar, yet with a much lesser magnitude.
Incidentally, to those who have been fortunate enough to read The Passion of Ayn Rand, what was AR like as a teen?
Jon - YES. I agree completely.
Soren - Wow. That's what I would have done. My terms, and none else.
Best,
Neha
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