If you're a child until "26" in DC, should other things follow?

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Anonymous wrote:At 18 you can sentence yourself to decades of student loan debt apparently because boomers told you that college was your golden ticket, and you knew nothing about recessions and shifting job markets.

It wasn't boomers.
Don't you remember Obama's push for "College for all." And, it just so happens that it was HE who took over the student loan program.
Coincidence?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At 18 you have graduated high school and are an adult.

Many haven’t. My kids had spring birthdays so they turned/will turn 18 months before graduation.

I turned 18 the September of my freshman year of college.

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Anonymous wrote:At 18 you can sentence yourself to decades of student loan debt apparently because boomers told you that college was your golden ticket, and you knew nothing about recessions and shifting job markets.

You sound like an idiot and it’s apparent that’s not on the boomers

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So liberals and Dems scream you don't have a fully formed brain until 26 and should receive leniency when you do crime because you make poor decisions.

OTOH liberals scream about letting prepubescent 11 year olds have access to sex changing therapies that can have permanent health consequences without the consent of their parents.

You can't have it both ways Democrats. If you're brain isn't fully formed until 26 and you can't make good decisions until 26, then how in the hell does it make bloody sense to allow teenagers to change their sex with medical procedures? Sorry, if teenagers are capable of picking gender affirming care, then that means a 20 year old has the mental capacity to choose or not to choose to do crime. You gotta be consistent with mental capacity now and decision making.

OP here, this was kind of my question. Are we trying to have it both ways treating 26 year olds (actually the law in DC is under 25 I think, sorry!) as children, but then treating children as adults before (as in your example) or when they turn 18? Like, releasing kids with clean records at 18 instead of keeping them incarcerated until they are 25 and presumably have matured into better judgment?

[Anonymous]

You know how you can vote when you're 18 but you can't legally drink until you're 21 and you can't serve in Congress until you're 25 and you can't be president until you're 35? It's like that.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm sure smarter people than I have posed this...

But since in DC, minds and impulses are undeveloped until age 26 and accorded great consideration (see Charles Allen's Youth Reform Act) -

Should we raise the "drinking age" for DC residents to 26?
Raise the voting age?
Should young offenders not be released UNTIL 26?

Why are we according all the privileges to 18 year olds, but none of the responsibilities?

People can stay on their parents insurance until they are 26.

What is your point?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So liberals and Dems scream you don't have a fully formed brain until 26 and should receive leniency when you do crime because you make poor decisions.

OTOH liberals scream about letting prepubescent 11 year olds have access to sex changing therapies that can have permanent health consequences without the consent of their parents.

You can't have it both ways Democrats. If you're brain isn't fully formed until 26 and you can't make good decisions until 26, then how in the hell does it make bloody sense to allow teenagers to change their sex with medical procedures? Sorry, if teenagers are capable of picking gender affirming care, then that means a 20 year old has the mental capacity to choose or not to choose to do crime. You gotta be consistent with mental capacity now and decision making.

the bolded is actually false

[Anonymous]

The same people who think we shouldn't incarcerate people under 26 because their brains aren't fully developed are the same ones pushing to lower the voting age to 16.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm sure smarter people than I have posed this...

But since in DC, minds and impulses are undeveloped until age 26 and accorded great consideration (see Charles Allen's Youth Reform Act) -

Should we raise the "drinking age" for DC residents to 26?
Raise the voting age?
Should young offenders not be released UNTIL 26?

Why are we according all the privileges to 18 year olds, but none of the responsibilities?

We should definitely raise the voting age.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So liberals and Dems scream you don't have a fully formed brain until 26 and should receive leniency when you do crime because you make poor decisions.

OTOH liberals scream about letting prepubescent 11 year olds have access to sex changing therapies that can have permanent health consequences without the consent of their parents.

You can't have it both ways Democrats. If you're brain isn't fully formed until 26 and you can't make good decisions until 26, then how in the hell does it make bloody sense to allow teenagers to change their sex with medical procedures? Sorry, if teenagers are capable of picking gender affirming care, then that means a 20 year old has the mental capacity to choose or not to choose to do crime. You gotta be consistent with mental capacity now and decision making.

It's more complicated than you are clearly able to absorb. Also, it's not Dems, it's some progressives. All of the studies state that especially for boys - they really don't mature until their late 20s. They also do more bad things in groups. With that said, they still no right from wrong. There are many criminals in jail who turn 35 and are like, what the hell was I thinking.

As a Dem, I don't believe in gender affirming care for youth. I just don't. Most Dems I know don't either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If anything, the drinking age should be lowered to 18. We aren't going to solve the underage drinking problem by locking up everyone who doesn't follow the rules.

We aren’t going to solve the problem with adding more alcohol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So liberals and Dems scream you don't have a fully formed brain until 26 and should receive leniency when you do crime because you make poor decisions.

OTOH liberals scream about letting prepubescent 11 year olds have access to sex changing therapies that can have permanent health consequences without the consent of their parents.

You can't have it both ways Democrats. If you're brain isn't fully formed until 26 and you can't make good decisions until 26, then how in the hell does it make bloody sense to allow teenagers to change their sex with medical procedures? Sorry, if teenagers are capable of picking gender affirming care, then that means a 20 year old has the mental capacity to choose or not to choose to do crime. You gotta be consistent with mental capacity now and decision making.

the bolded is actually false

Thank you.

[Anonymous]

I was a multi-millionaire by 28 and 2 of my kids started businesses and did the same by 30 as well. Leave us alone!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was a multi-millionaire by 28 and 2 of my kids started businesses and did the same by 30 as well. Leave us alone!

Damn you, Poe's Law!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So liberals and Dems scream you don't have a fully formed brain until 26 and should receive leniency when you do crime because you make poor decisions.

OTOH liberals scream about letting prepubescent 11 year olds have access to sex changing therapies that can have permanent health consequences without the consent of their parents.

You can't have it both ways Democrats. If you're brain isn't fully formed until 26 and you can't make good decisions until 26, then how in the hell does it make bloody sense to allow teenagers to change their sex with medical procedures? Sorry, if teenagers are capable of picking gender affirming care, then that means a 20 year old has the mental capacity to choose or not to choose to do crime. You gotta be consistent with mental capacity now and decision making.

It's more complicated than you are clearly able to absorb. Also, it's not Dems, it's some progressives. All of the studies state that especially for boys - they really don't mature until their late 20s. They also do more bad things in groups. With that said, they still no right from wrong. There are many criminals in jail who turn 35 and are like, what the hell was I thinking.

As a Dem, I don't believe in gender affirming care for youth. I just don't. Most Dems I know don't either.

Yes, PP needs a new news source if he believes the crap he just wrote.