Religion is a relic of the past

[The Architect Of Fate]

Fun fact Alexander The Great ran the kingdom of Macedonia at 16. Could Lek run a whole kingdom? 

[Lek]

Would you go to a 16 year old for advice on making your life choices?  I wouldn't. They haven't lived any life on their own and haven't gained the maturity required to make those decisions.  Maybe you think a 16 year old can fully grasp the consequences of removing his genitals or of taking hormones to alter her natural bodily development,  but I  don't. I think it could it be devastating for life to leave a decision like that in their hands.  Let them go into then world and experience it on their own before making a decision that they must deal with for life.

I actually learn a lot from my 17 year old granddaughter and her crew of friends.  True they haven't lived as long as I have but they have good input on things today.  At this point they are making life choices of all sorts.  Their knowledge is of the world today about things that can make people uncomfortable aren't as hidden as they were when I was a senior in HS back in the 70s. 

People who were LGBTQ+ were quite deeply alone in the closet back then.  Today is better with much more acceptance, even here, deep in the heart of Texas.


A different perspective isn't necessarily an incorrect perspective.  And, they are moving in the world they live in.  Not the one I lived in at their age.

You are quite dismissive of teens.  Have you met one lately?

I sure have.

[The Architect Of Fate]

I sure have.

Well, you don't seem to understand them and are absurdly dismissive of them.

[Lek]

I understand them very well. I think you're the one who doesn't understand them. That's why we have so many laws protecting the and limiting their freedoms.

[Mister Agenda]

Therefore there's no such thing as a teenager worth listening to?

[Lek]

All teenagers are worth listening to. That doesn't mean they are fit to make wise life-altering decisions.

[The Grand Nudger]

Like getting knocked up by a ghost in the middle of the night?

[arewethereyet]

All teenagers are worth listening to. That doesn't mean they are fit to make wise life-altering decisions.

There are supposed adults who aren't fit to make wise any kind of decisions.

Your point is?

[The Architect Of Fate]

I understand them very well. 

I going to say hazard you don't considering your attitude towards them.....

I think you're the one who doesn't understand them. 

Nah I'll say otherwise as I actually treat them like thinking beings.

That's why we have so many laws protecting the and limiting their freedoms

Yup we also give them plenty of freedom and everyone has laws protecting and limiting their freedom. None of that is an argument against them having judgment sufficient to make their own choices about their bodies and their identities. this is a piss poor argument.

[The Architect Of Fate]

All teenagers are worth listening to. That doesn't mean they are fit to make wise life-altering decisions.

Yup there also fit to make life-altering decisions and so far you have failed to make any case that they aren't.