(January 7, 2013 at 6:11 pm)Darkstar Wrote:I'm going to assume you weren't referring to me, and I will point out that I didn't say it was attained at any particular age, or even certianly attained at all. Unless you would like to argue that she was mature at age nine, of course. We wouldn't want to discriminate against her based on age.
Then you would be assuming wrongly. Why can't she be mature at age nine? Is maturity related only towards 'when can this creature reproduce', or what? There have been 8 year old mothers before.
Quote:Then again, "maturity" could refer to a number of things like physical, sexual, or emotional maturity, the first two of which are determined by age.
No, actually. None of these are determined by age. All of these can be accelerated or decelerated, and who knows where science will take the question of 'how fast' one day?
Seriously. Not that you've yet to define what maturity is.
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
