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[Eilonnwy]

First, I don't think the age line misses anyone so much except in 1 direction, that being those mentally retarded, and we have a way of dealing with them. I do not believe there is any child so mature that waiting for legal stature at 18 seriously impedes them. So yes, the age line works. My points are true.

Theorizing what can be possible is always good, but it's important to realize that an idea does not work when it's been thoroughly refuted and move on.

On a side note, I've been re-watching Farscape, and a great conversation between Sikozu and Rygel reminded me of this topic.

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SIKOZU
Do you have any idea how small you are?

RYGEL
You're not exactly a giant yourself.

SIKOZU
You have been reduced in size! You're hardly bigger than a filima bug now!

(Sikozu looks around a bit frantically.)

SIKOZU
Except... except this can't be happening.

RYGEL
(sighing)
Can't it?

SIKOZU
No... no. Reduction by... proportionately subtracting atoms would... leave our brains too simple to function.

RYGEL
So? Maybe they just made all our atoms smaller.

SIKOZU
But then we couldn't breathe normal sized air molecules, don't you see?

(Almost nicely recovered from a bit of a panic attack, soothing herself with the 'facts'.)

SIKOZU
No. No. This isn't happening because... it is not possible.

RYGEL
Your brain isn't functioning. Do you think this is all just a hallucination? Do you like that explanation better, hm?

SIKOZU
No... but I simply cannot comprehend how --

RYGEL
Neither can I. -- Who cares? We're here, they did it, and that's that. You consider yourself intelligent?

SIKOZU
(angry)
Yes, I do.

RYGEL
Then stop behaving like a child.

SIKOZU
I am not a child!

RYGEL
(makes a disbelieving noise)
You're an infant! You've studied but you haven't experienced. You know nothing of life.

SIKOZU
(sweetly insincere)
And you do?

RYGEL
I've been around long enough to know how ignorant I am. I don't assume the universe obeys my preconceptions. Hah! But I know a frelling fact when it hits me in the face.

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