Wuddabout driving and voting? Driving: in this case, there's a big cost/benefit balance. On one hand, unleashing 16yo drivers on to the roads is scary AF. On t

Wuddabout driving and voting? Driving: in this case, there's a big cost/benefit balance. On one hand, unleashing 16yo drivers on to the roads is scary AF. On the other, what chaos would ensue if you generally tried to tell teenagers they couldn't go anywhere? You can debate the exact age cutoff, but it's a less-of-two evils calculation. Voting: for various reasons we want to send 18yo kids to fight wars and apparently (in the US at least) our collective sense of fairness, as rudimentary as it is, lead us to at least give them a minor say in the matter. Look up the history of changing the voting age from 21 to 18 in the US. Perhaps it really did help, because we haven't used the draft since a few years after the change.