Why we should not give seats to children

One of the discussion I found interesting and want to share with everyone is concerning the issue of seat priority in public transportation. It began when my Japanese teacher asked to whom do Thai people offer seat to. We answer her: to women, children, handicaps, monks. One of these options now bring a contrast view, the children. My Japanese teacher said in Japan, we do not give seats to children for the following reasons:

"They are younger than us and stronger than us. In the future they have to become adults, strong adults. So they should stand and be strong. Keep fighting."

Now she asked us what is the reason for giving seats to children. One of my friend said, because they are cute. I think her answer is more cute. No one was giving a good reason for this. For me I think because the loving and caring nature of Thais as part of the spoiling process were the answer.

Instead of having a future generation that is strong and can think for themselves we ended up having a generation that is strong, strongly need others to take care for them. In programming we would say that this piece of code is highly coupled, meaning that they have high dependencies of other codes. Should this be a sensible reason to stop spoiling the kids? Now think carefully, to whom you should offer seats to.