muhtesm Wrote:I do not care what the law says a 16-year-old is not an adult. He's a still boy. Even his brain is not developed enough.
I care about the what the law says in some cases. Mostly because the people who enforce the laws have a lot more power than I do... and I might get shot/stabbed/jailed if I don't follow their laws ^_^
He is not a boy, he is a teenager. Men do not develop straight out of boyhood. Men are not mushrooms. They do not pop out of the snow like daisies, even if we do breed like rabbits. Between boyhood and manhood is the transition period of being a teenager.
I do not believe most people who cross an 'age line designating adulthood' be an adult. Many people are still developing into adulthood at that time, and some might never completely make it there (look at Dotard and Padriac
).
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
