The older people here would say that young teenagers often mistake their feelings for love, exaggerate their emotions, etc. It's (with respect) the lack of maturity and experience that leads to such confusion.

The younger people here, on the other hand, believe they're perfectly capable of love -- just like the older people here believed when they were young -- and that nobody should tell them what they do and don't feel, or understand.

The logical reasoning to this would be that when the younger people get older (more maturity and experience), they may agree with how the older people are thinking.
This, however, does not mean that the older people are right.

While it is true that alot of whiney teenagers mistake their feelings for love, that does not mean that all teenagers (or even a majority) 'can't love'. To make a statement like that is purely asanine. Now, I haven't been in this debate at all, so I'm a little out of touch with what has been said, so bear with me please.


Do any young people ever wonder why older people always say younger people don't know or understand love? It is just something you learn when you get older. Not to say that kids don't still have feelings, it is just that the ability to understand those feelings can only come with experience, and therefore time.
You do not need to understand a feeling for it to be there. I'll agree that alot of young people don't understand love, but that doesn't mean that they don't, or can't, love.