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

[Alma J Wetzker]

Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote:
>>From: Matthew Carpenter [mailto:matt at eisgr.com] 
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>>And they were right...
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>>Net Llama! wrote:
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>>>On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Harry G wrote:
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>>>>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive
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> /2004/03/08/national2139EST0788.DTL&type=printable
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>>>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  ;-})

Is it just me, or has RA Heinlein covered most of those topics?

     -- Alma