<OT> One more reason I am glad I don't live in CA

[Condon Thomas A KPWA]

> From: Matthew Carpenter [mailto:matt at eisgr.com] 
> 
> And they were right...
> 
> Net Llama! wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Harry G wrote:
> >
> >>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive
/2004/03/08/national2139EST0788.DTL&type=printable
>>
>>Unbelievable!  I can't get my 14 year old to clean her room, but she is
>>to make political judgements?
>
>Not that i nececsarily agree with this (and I do live in california), but
>I hear folks made the same argument against giving voting rights to 18
>year olds a while back.

The problem is that in our society the closest thing we have to a "Right of
Passage" is a drivers license exam.  Everything else passes without a test
to "prove" you have the new rights.  Drinking, voting, going to war - none
of them involve a proving.  So they are all arbitrary ages.  If there was a
deductive reasoning exam, now...

I've heard it argued that this is one reason kids join gangs.  At least then
there is an initiation that involves a right of passage.  Unfortunately,
then it is kids teaching kids to be adults, and that doesn't work except in
rare occasions.  [Revisit Lord Of The Flies for an in depth look at this.]


In Harmony's Way and In A Chord,

Tom  ;-})

Tom Condon
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