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It’s their business regardless. If you’re going to start taking away agency from 18 year olds, then we should shift the voting age higher too because that’s too young to make those kinds of decisions.

Adulthood vs. childhood is always going to face a fuzzy boundary and any line is going to be arbitrary for one reason or another. At a certain point, we have to consider people full legal persons with rights and responsibilities, and that includes the right to make mistakes. I think more restrictions and involving criminal systems is more likely to hurt than help. Affect this by way of social stigmatization, not legality.

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I think more restrictions and involving criminal systems is more likely to hurt than help. Affect this by way of social stigmatization, not legality.

Yeah it’s funny seeing some here getting all “tough on crime” when it comes to this issue

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“It’s ICKY and it’s okay when I don’t like it :comfy:” This comm rn.

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Ah yes, giving childish responses like this are totally a reflection of how much of a big, smart boy you are.

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Affect this by way of social stigmatization, not legality

A powerful rich man is above any social stigmatization an average person could level. Social stigma can only be used against people in your community

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Then that’s a separate issue now isn’t it? :gui-better: That’s the point of a more equitable world - where people aren’t grossly more powerful than others.

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ok but I was talking about how people should behave in the world we live in now not the world after we achieve socialism.

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Hard disagree. Not about the monkey brain thing, but about legality binding people. So flippant about the policing necessary to enforce this kind of law.

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A lot of people (on all issues) think of law and enforcement as different things, when in reality they’re inseparable.

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I feel like age 18 is still a good voting age

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