Teenagers are smarter than that. It's adults who when confronted with the expectation of adulting revert to childish behavior that you would expect of a five year old. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Kohlberg%27s_stages_of_moral_development They really have the moral development of small children. Give me things. When society is working correctly teenagers are able to hit stage 6 morality before they exit high school.