"Give me the child until he is seven and I'll give you the man."*
The two most self-serving exercises in the Western world would be Academy Award winners' speeches and crooks' pleas designed to persuade judges to go light in the sentencing stakes.
Actors feign surprise before reciting carefully rehearsed words while crims who passionately argue their innocence during a trial then move to Plan B after a guilty verdict, to offer a range of excuses as to why they did it in the first place.
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/born-or-made-bad-20150619-ghqz3i
The two most self-serving exercises in the Western world would be Academy Award winners' speeches and crooks' pleas designed to persuade judges to go light in the sentencing stakes.
Actors feign surprise before reciting carefully rehearsed words while crims who passionately argue their innocence during a trial then move to Plan B after a guilty verdict, to offer a range of excuses as to why they did it in the first place.
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/born-or-made-bad-20150619-ghqz3i