• MotoAsh@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Oh, I don’t mean temporary custody under controlled and hopefully educated circumstances, but those who hand it over completely. A kid simply does not need that power nor have the responsibility for full time custody.

    Hell, the government wants people 18+ before they’ll hand someone a gun and let them go die for something…

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            if you can’t make the decision to drink, buy a gun, or whatever else because you’re supposedly not “mature” enough to do, why the fuck should you be trusted with choosing who makes those laws? while you’re at it, raise the age to enroll in the military. if you can go die for your country at 18 you should be able to buy a beer, vote, and buy the gun they’ll hand you at boot.

            conversely if you want to lower the voting age, as some democrats suggest, then so should the drinking age, gun purchasing age etc.

            there’s simply no logic in being ‘mature’ enough for one and not the other.

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              It’s not about principle of freedom or maturity. The legal age of drinking is where it is because of young adults drinking and driving. You can have layers of maturity that isn’t give/take all responsibilities. An 18 year old should be allowed to vote because they’re just as responsible as any adult to provide themselves their own food and shelter. Unless you think it should be illegal to kick someone out until they’re 21.

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      Hell, the government wants people 18+

      No, I’m pretty sure that was some ancient Christian pro-lifers who came up with that rule. Government would take people younger if they could.

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        “… if they could.”

        Yea that’s kinda’ EXACTLY the point… they CAN make it that way, but haven’t. The entire point is that modern Republicans are far more despicable than most any kind of politician from history. Yes, that includes slavers.

        It takes an entire additional level of evil to step BACK IN TO social problems, and that’s 100% of the modern GOP platform: bring back problems that were already solved.