• VelvetStorm@lemmy.world
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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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          8 months ago

          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.

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                  8 months ago

                  My point is that the legal definitions don’t match reality.

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                    8 months ago

                    You failed to provide an alternative though. So as far as anyone else here knows your criteria is completely arbitrary.