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"Moldy Tater Gangrene, even before Moscow Marge."
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In Scotland for sure, the voting age is 16. Drinking age there is the same, I think (as well as most areas of Europe).
The only objective ways to determine maturity are either brain-based or reproductive based. The former is around 25, the latter is usually anywhere from 13 to 15.
So what is it? Should we forbid military service before age 25? Or should we have 13 to 15 as the draft age? Unless there's a more objective physical measure of maturity that I'm unaware of, I can't see the ages of 18 and 21 as anything but arbitrary.
Having said that, I think the least burdensome thing is to decide if it should be 18 or 21 - especially in an age where even a high school diploma isn't worth all that much.
In Scotland for sure, the voting age is 16. Drinking age there is the same, I think (as well as most areas of Europe).
The only objective ways to determine maturity are either brain-based or reproductive based. The former is around 25, the latter is usually anywhere from 13 to 15.
So what is it? Should we forbid military service before age 25? Or should we have 13 to 15 as the draft age? Unless there's a more objective physical measure of maturity that I'm unaware of, I can't see the ages of 18 and 21 as anything but arbitrary.
Having said that, I think the least burdensome thing is to decide if it should be 18 or 21 - especially in an age where even a high school diploma isn't worth all that much.
American living in Scotland or Scot living in Dallas?
I would appreciate a Cowboys shirt while I am it
Anyways, I think we should just raise it to 25 at this point, each and every generation keeps relying more and more on their parents I feel. Just look at millenials, but I blame the boomers for this mess too.
With the way more and more parents are "redshirting" their kids (not starting them in Kindergarten until they are as close to six as possible), kids are still in high school when they are 18. Many probably pushing 19 before they graduate.
Scholastic advancement and maturity of the student aside, the superintendent in my grandson's district recommends redshirting (especially boys) because it makes them "bigger for football".
There is a growing movement in towns to raise the smoking age to 21. Six States have jumped on the bandwagon http://www.google.com/url?q=https://...lBK1AX3DL76e03. So far the tobacco lobby has been unable to block it.
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