Not being able to buy porn when your 16 is not an injustice.
In order to possess a weapon you have to clear a background check. While this won't prevent every unstable person from having a gun, it does as good of a job as it can. And furthermore, gun possession is not a problem limited to what's legal. People who legally can't get guns get them anyway. Your argument has nothing to do with the true gun problem.
You, nor anyone else, has the right to say when someone can have a child. If they prove to be unfit then you take the child away. Suggesting that we should control when people have children is treading on personal freedoms. And FYI, underage children in this country can have children or abortions. Both are legal, so you complaint is once again irrelevant to age restriction.
We cannot control everyone everywhere. Only in extreme mentally ill cases do we decide to take control of an individual's life. You have no right to judge how a person lives just because you don't see the logic in it. In fact what you suggest is akin to a police state, controlling everyone, and their decisions, because apparently they can't make these decisions for themselves. In fact what you suggest reminds me a lot of the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, you should read it if you haven't.
We know exactly what we're saying. You've proven nothing, only that you think such complex issues have such easy answers and that's far from the truth.
The fact is, Children cannot support themselves so we as a society have to make a judgement call for when they are protected under law through their guardian or parent and when they become an adult, capable of being self-reliant and making their own decisions. We have decided 18, and it's perfectly reasonable. If there was a case were parents or guardians were severely mistreating their children, there are ways of dealing with it. In fact in extreme cases you CAN be declared an independent at 16 and divorce your parents.
There is nothing wrong with the system as it is. You have no argument. If your circumstance is so unjust then you need to talk to a lawyer, not us.
Quote: A mentally insane adult... deserves the right to posses weapons? An immature adult... deserves the right to have children? An adult that cannot support themself... deserves to make decisions they are not ready for? I could go on... Have you any idea what you are saying?
In order to possess a weapon you have to clear a background check. While this won't prevent every unstable person from having a gun, it does as good of a job as it can. And furthermore, gun possession is not a problem limited to what's legal. People who legally can't get guns get them anyway. Your argument has nothing to do with the true gun problem.
You, nor anyone else, has the right to say when someone can have a child. If they prove to be unfit then you take the child away. Suggesting that we should control when people have children is treading on personal freedoms. And FYI, underage children in this country can have children or abortions. Both are legal, so you complaint is once again irrelevant to age restriction.
We cannot control everyone everywhere. Only in extreme mentally ill cases do we decide to take control of an individual's life. You have no right to judge how a person lives just because you don't see the logic in it. In fact what you suggest is akin to a police state, controlling everyone, and their decisions, because apparently they can't make these decisions for themselves. In fact what you suggest reminds me a lot of the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, you should read it if you haven't.
We know exactly what we're saying. You've proven nothing, only that you think such complex issues have such easy answers and that's far from the truth.
The fact is, Children cannot support themselves so we as a society have to make a judgement call for when they are protected under law through their guardian or parent and when they become an adult, capable of being self-reliant and making their own decisions. We have decided 18, and it's perfectly reasonable. If there was a case were parents or guardians were severely mistreating their children, there are ways of dealing with it. In fact in extreme cases you CAN be declared an independent at 16 and divorce your parents.
There is nothing wrong with the system as it is. You have no argument. If your circumstance is so unjust then you need to talk to a lawyer, not us.
"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason." Benjamin Franklin
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