Mystickystuff wrote:Page wrote:
The law has never once considered that there is a small amount of juveniles worthy of being allowed to drink, gamble, have sex, or vote. Why should crime be the one thing in society where children are treated as adults?
The law might be wrong. The law might violate children's rights on the basis that it's been doing so since forever. Since patriarchy, since matriarchy, since before there was any government to guarantee the rights of anyone. The protector and provider, was also the owner and master, and as for a slave it is impossible for children to fight back against oppression. They can, and do, "run away from home".
The next step in children's liberation is to legalize and support running away from home. There should be Free Children's Communes.
You point is correct of course. Children are not fully responsible for their actions, while still under the coercion of someone else.
Children can't even avoid putting hazardous things in their mouths purely out of curiosity and you expect them to be able to govern themselves?
Where the fuck do people get these wack ideas from, smh.