Once you've considered it for a moment, it's telling what sort of person you are if you would still agree that neoteny is good and desirable. That is if you aren't already a biologist and having learned what the advantages and disadvantages are, realize what they really mean for human beings, for the society of human beings is unique in nature.

The neotenic prospect before us is longer lives lived in extended adolescence (and paradoxically shortened prepubescence despite all the efforts to prolong childhood). Isn't there obvious problems with this? And shouldn't the ideal rather be longer life lived in adulthood? I realize popular opinion has shifted in the last seventy or so years. But I believe the life most worth living is a life of responsibility and in adulthood that is at its peak.