| ▲ | whynotminot 6 hours ago |
| Can we raise the age of adulthood from 18 to whatever acceptable age ends this discourse once and for all? |
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| ▲ | Dylan16807 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Probably not, because there's inevitably a transition period. |
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| ▲ | whynotminot 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Sure, raise it past the transition period. I’m tired of the pearl clutchers. Decide an age you’ll actually accept. That’s an adult. No more infantilization. | | |
| ▲ | Dylan16807 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | You're not understanding my argument. Within the current way we do things, whatever age you pick is the age the transition period starts for a big fraction of people. Just picking a higher age doesn't work. If anything, based on the median in the US right now, we should be introducing more self-determination earlier. |
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| ▲ | johnnyanmac 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Not without impacting other political aspects. Remember we only lowered the voting age to 18 some 50 years ago to justify the ability to send more kids to a war we started. And that's only the tip of the iceberg. |
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| ▲ | whynotminot 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | We seem perfectly fine splitting up some aspects of adulthood, like 21 for drinking. |
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