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unlimited-shitpost-works:azureleon:feminists-against-feminism:peachyopinions:feminists-against-feminism:theindependentconservative:thinksquad:You can’t lower the age to vote and raise the age in which it is legal to drink, own a firearm, and serve in the armed forces. An individual is either a full citizen, or they’re not.I’m very happy I wasn’t allowed to vote at 16What would this even accomplish? A lower percentage of young people voting? Anyways, lower the voting age, fine. But let legal adults smoke (21 in California now), drink, rent cars, etc etc. Give everyone everything at 17, across the board. Full self ownership to be a household, adopt, get a drivers liscence, vote, consume alcohol, cigarrettes, give sexual consent, and whatever other responsibilities we randomly dump on them throughout adolescence and young adulthood, and also stop letting 14 year olds work, 17 should be the point at which child labor laws no longer apply to you. We pretend we have set a line of adulthood, when obviously we set a bunch of random transitional ones. It’s going to be a little arbitrary wherevery it is set, and people personally developed at different rates technically, but for the sake of legal simplicity, I think 17 is a good point where people can be given adulthood and adult responsibilities.Teenagers are impressionable. Unfortunately, this is just a way for political parties to expand and bolster its ranks. Especially when the majority of education centers lean to certain political parties rather than the ideal apolitical. Invoking Godwin’s law, you could say this is a proto-hitler’s youth.Hogg said he became an activist because adults don’t know how to “use a f*cking democracy”:“When your old-ass parent is like, ‘I don’t know how to send an iMessage,’ and you’re just like, ‘Give me the fucking phone and let me handle it.’ Sadly, that’s what we have to do with our government; our parents don’t know how to use a fucking democracy, so we have to.”https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/03/23/david_hogg_our_parents_dont_know_how_to_use_a_fcking_democracy_so_we_have_to.htmlso very mature -- source link