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> teenagers and people in their early twenties are more capable if they were given just, as the article puts it, not just more freedom but more responsibility.
by eitland 7y ago
> teenagers and people in their early twenties are more capable if they were given just, as the article puts it, not just more freedom but more responsibility.
Agree. Although it probably should come gradually, a 15 y.o. probably shouldn't be judged as hard as 25 y.o. or a 55 y.o.
I've read before that a theory is that choosing 18 years (or 21 or whatever it is where you live) as the age of adulthood was done in a time when people were actually held responsible for their actions after they were 15.
I also think I read that certain parts of the brain didn't develop until a person start being held accountable for their actions.
I cannot find it at the moment so for what I and you know this is pure speculation (unless anyone remember it or care to find it) but to me it doesn't sound to unreasonable
- Mirioron 7y ago>in a time when people were actually held responsible for their actions after they were 15. Interestingly enough, people are legally held criminally responsible at ages of 14-16 in quite a few countries. But even in those countries they're often treated as just kids with no say.
- Nasrudith 7y agoReally the age of responsibility is transparently bullshit based upon whatever is more convenient to the rulemakers and enforcers than any unified principles - and occasionally lapses into Kafkaesque insanity.
- noobermin 7y agoAgree on the easing into it as one grows older. I didn't fit that into my comment but that's what I think is more ideal.