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Your examples of blurring childhood and adulthood are mostly answerable (however poorly) by saying "well, these things may be increasingly happening, but they S
by waqf 13y ago
Your examples of blurring childhood and adulthood are mostly answerable (however poorly) by saying "well, these things may be increasingly happening, but they Shouldn't Happen and we should work on fixing that".
Here's an example that can't be thus answered. Should a minor pay income taxes, if they have enough income? I think most people would say yes. But then tell me again why they can't vote?
- tokenizer 13y agoExactly. Taxation without representation is extortion.
- eli_gottlieb 13y agoHi, just wanted to say that if you lost a point of karma on this post, it was because I accidentally clicked downvote. Pure accident, really, because I actually think everyone in this thread should be heading over to youthrights.org and reading a bunch of their literature right now. This issue has festered outside the adult-public consciousness for far too long. National Youth Rights Association (for Americans): http://www.youthrights.org http://www.youthrights.org
- snowwrestler 13y agoI don't think that minors can get that much income because their employment is very limited, and they cannot enter into business contracts.
- waqf 13y agoMinors can de facto have arbitrarily large incomes from investments, although typically the investments are structured as trusts and are not legally the property of the minor. Besides, child movie stars.