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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread is wild to me.  All of you associating the ability to operate a single type of machine with maturity.  Do you have a similar level of judgement on people who don’t go to college?  Don’t own houses in their own names?  Hire other people to do their taxes?  Don’t have a passport?[/quote]

The only place where I see that there is a maturity issue is when a person has access to a car, does not have a disability or some PTSD-like issue, and lives outside of an area with tons of public transportation.  Particularly if they have a spouse.  Just seems like weaponized incompetence.[/quote]

Agree.

It also means:  you expect me to drive you.

But I’m not interested and comfortable telling you no.  We are probably not going to be friends.[/quote]

I see.  Maybe it’s because I’ve always lived in cities that I just don’t see the lack of a drivers license as a sign of incomplete adulthood; no one I know without a car expects anyone to drive them anywhere.  If they’re going somewhere without access via public transit, they just use Uber; it’s no big deal.  But if a nominal peer always expected me to drive them (or handhold them on the metro or take charge of their transportation in any way) I too would consider that immature/annoying.  I think it’s the asking that’s the problem/sign of immaturity, not the lack of drivers license.[/quote]

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