• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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      8 months ago

      I greeted my fellow 20-ish-year-olds with “what’s up kids” at that age as a way of saying we were still young party machines. I am not disrespecting these folks.

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      8 months ago

      I don’t think I’d consider most 18 year old “full grown adults”

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        8 months ago

        Old enough to be sent to die and kill innocent non white people for profit so they are old enough to be adults.

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          8 months ago

          The vast, vast majority of 18 year olds are not in the military, and it’s really weird to consider all 18 year olds adults because a tiny fraction of them are soldiers

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            8 months ago

            I never once said they all were in the military or that them being in the military made them adults. I said if we consider them adult enough to be able to do that, then we need to just consider them adults in general.

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              Yeah, and I think that’s stupid. It doesn’t match reality. Just because 18 happens to be the age at which some policy says you’re allowed to be a solider, doesn’t magically make it the age that teens become adults.