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Stephanie: "Can I go out with my friends?"

Parent: "No."

Stephanie: "Why?"

Parent: "Why should I? How would that benefit me?"

Stephanie: "..."

Stephanie: "So that forty years from now, when you're old, weak, and vulnerable, I won't leave you in an old-people slash invalid's home to wallow in lonely self-hate while suffering the consequences of your prior decisions to ultimately aggravate me during my childhood without reasonable excuse?"

Parent: "Ah, fair enough."