Purpelia wrote:The Free Joy State wrote:Why should someone who can work, pay taxes, be tried as an adult, join the Army and die for their country (as well as drink or marry) be unable to have any say on the laws that decide their life?
Because young people are too easily swayed by rhetoric and appeals to emotion and ideology due to the fact they have insufficient life experience to counter them. Notice how the numbers of SJW, neocommunists, neonazis etc. drops off with age until only the hardcore guys are left by the time you reach middle age. Every single radical movement, political ism and insane religious and ideological coup has always come on the backs of the 18-25 year olds.
Got a source for the bolded? Also lmao, unironically using "but the essjaydoubleyoos" as an argument.
Unless you're arguing that those under 30 should not be allowed to work, not pay taxes, should not be tried as an adult, should not be able to join the Army, should not be allowed to marry, or drink?
Actually I would relax or remove most restrictions from that list entirely. The only thing I wouldn't allow young people to do is vote, work and fight. Also I guess pedophilia is not cool. But drinking, being tried as an adult and that stuff I say should be from birth.
What the fuck... So people under 30 shouldn't be able to work, and you find nothing wrong with infants, toddlers, and other small children drinking?
Tying the voting age to the age of majority is historically the reason why the minimum age has been 18... So, I can't see the reason for raising it, unless you want to raise the age of majority likewise.
Those unwilling to break with tradition are doomed to relive the mistakes of our past.
When it's tradition for tradition's sake, you may have a point. As it is, things are the way they are for actual reasons.