While having lines to be drawn... 'cut off points' for doing certain things, where you have to be 12, 15, 18, 21 years old for certain things etc - while I see to not really make sense and be ridiculous: What I ask is for a practical alternative?
Do we have to make a shit choice if the alternative is guess work that could possibly worse, for some?
If a child has good parents that can judge, that's fine...but if a child has parents who can't judge the matter, etc - what alternative could we have to some kind of 'cut off point', somewhere to drawn the line, despite the...quite absurd arbitrariness of it?
Because if it's totally free, and there's no law on the matter at all - then bad parents could readily allow their children to do things when they aren't ready. So what is the alternative to a highly arbitrary drawing of lines?
This is what I wonder to myself.
EvF
Do we have to make a shit choice if the alternative is guess work that could possibly worse, for some?
If a child has good parents that can judge, that's fine...but if a child has parents who can't judge the matter, etc - what alternative could we have to some kind of 'cut off point', somewhere to drawn the line, despite the...quite absurd arbitrariness of it?
Because if it's totally free, and there's no law on the matter at all - then bad parents could readily allow their children to do things when they aren't ready. So what is the alternative to a highly arbitrary drawing of lines?
This is what I wonder to myself.
EvF
