Don Boudreaux:

If my eight-year-old son behaved as these people behave, I’d punish him
severely and work with every sinew of my body and soul, day and night,
to rehabilitate him.  And if, at the end of his childhood, I discover
that I failed — say, if my son, when he’s grown, aspires to political
office — I’ll hang my head in shame knowing that I’ve unleashed on the
world someone who is at best a leech.