My mom is always repeating the same old joke: if your friends all jumped off a cliff, would you jump, too? of course not. but i get what she means. she's talking about peer pressure. teenagers like us live with it every day. pretty much every kid wants to be liked, to have friends, to be popular. no one wants people to think they aren't cool. while peer pressure is tough, giving in to it and getting in trouble is tougher.

but teenagers are still learning to make good decisions. like this one time my friend harold wanted to take his dad's prized jeep grand cherokee for a drive. harold was 13, and he'd never driven a car before. but he figured he knew enough about operating a motor vehicle just by watching his parents drive. when his parents were out of town one weekend, harold invited me and some of our friends over to his house so he could take us for a drive. i said, "not me," because i knew it was a stupid thing to do. i told him and everybody else what i thought of the idea. (driving isn't easy. it took my big brother weeks to get the hang of it.) harold got mad and told me i was being a chicken. i said, "i'd rather be a chicken than get in an accident and have a broken leg."

what is the thesis statement of this passage?

he knew enough about operating a motor vehicle just by watching his parents drive.

while peer pressure is tough, giving in to it and getting in trouble is tougher.

driving isn't easy. it took my big brother weeks to get the hang of it.

no one wants people to think they aren't cool.

B)  While peer pressure is tough, giving in to it and getting in trouble is tougher.

Explanation: A thesis is an idea or theory that is expressed as a statement and is discussed in a logical way. When writing or speaking, a thesis statement is a statement that occurs at the end of the introduction, after the background information on the topic. In the given passage we can see that the author introduces the topic by explaining something that his mother used to tell him, and then he writes the thesis statement at the end of the introduction:  While peer pressure is tough, giving in to it and getting in trouble is tougher.

no,

explanation:

because they are likely to use their corrupted thought process to get what they want. not what is better for the another reason they shouldn't is since they abused their rights as a us citizen they should have certain rights stripped away from them as punishment, such as the right to vote. due to the lack of proper behavior exemplified   from their actions , it would be hard for people to trust them because of their criminal record.   either directly (in the case of a referendum or ballot initiative) or indirectly (by choosing lawmakers and law enforcers). in fact, we do have certain minimum, objective standards of responsibility and commitment to our laws that we require people to meet before they are given a role in the solemn enterprise of self-government. people who have committed serious crimes against their fellow citizens don’t meet those standards. and those crimes can include such “non-violent felonies” as, say, treason and espionage, or voter fraud and public corruption, white-collar crime and felonies merely “concerning drugs” — like trafficking in fentanyl-laced heroin and selling it to minors, for example. if you’re not willing to follow the law, then you should not have a role in making the law for everyone else.

our founding fathers introduced the revolutionary idea that each person's desire to pursue their idea of happiness was not self-indulgence, but a necessary driver of a prosperous society. they created a government to defend that right for everyone.