I suppose this is another hot subject. I observe that in all of life, kids almost universally lie about their age to do something that all the kids do anyway. they lie and say they x yrs old in order to get a job that requires a certain age. (child labor laws that mean well but sometimes are applied stupidly) they lie about age to smoke if they wish to smoke (with or without a friends ID) they come back from the war and lie about age to get a beer at the bar. when they are adolescents, they lie to get a date, in conversation they lie to obtain approval status (I am a big boy/girl now), they lie to get away with playing hooky from school. (oh, I am 16 officer)
I am not against all age restrictions. they are intended to protect the kids. but being applied unwisely they inadvertently teach the kids to hate the rules and lie to bypass them.
do you remember when the drinking age in some states was 18, and you had to be 21 to vote??? they reversed it. now you must be 21 to drink but 18 to vote (except certain jurisdictions such as California here the kids from 16 to 18 get 1/2 vote, and the kids 14 to 16 get 1/4 vote, to teach them responsibility and bring them into the scheme of things.
the u.s. is the only country in the world that does nor specify the age of adulthood. it is left to the states who have not set it, except Nebraska which states you are an adult at 19. how do you look a soldier in the face who just returned from fighting a war for 2 years and tell him he is not allowed to have a beer because he is not an adult yet. what I am doing here is calling attention to the over-regulation of things in the form of age restrictions, that are counter-productive and stupid.
I now live in Amsterdam, but grew up in southern California on the beach. years ago California used to be a cool place to live and everyone in the country liked it. then this nasty group of people I call "the regulators" got their hands on state government, and they started over regulating everything. now California is so over-regulated that nobody likes it any more, business is moving out, cost of living is going up, services are going down, crime is up, enjoyment is down. mostly all caused by too much regulation. stupid people love the phrase "the rules are the rules, you gotta have rules you know" well sometimes there are too many rules, too many age restrictions, too many regulations, and then people just say the hell with it.
the cure, or answer: start repealing a lot of laws and cancelling regulations and age restrictions. this is not uniquely my idea. it had been proposed by many presidents including teddy Roosevelt and JFK, who said congress should repeal 2 laws for every one they pass. so now then all you good parents. how do you feel about all the rules and regulations we impose on our kids???
I am not against all age restrictions. they are intended to protect the kids. but being applied unwisely they inadvertently teach the kids to hate the rules and lie to bypass them.
do you remember when the drinking age in some states was 18, and you had to be 21 to vote??? they reversed it. now you must be 21 to drink but 18 to vote (except certain jurisdictions such as California here the kids from 16 to 18 get 1/2 vote, and the kids 14 to 16 get 1/4 vote, to teach them responsibility and bring them into the scheme of things.
the u.s. is the only country in the world that does nor specify the age of adulthood. it is left to the states who have not set it, except Nebraska which states you are an adult at 19. how do you look a soldier in the face who just returned from fighting a war for 2 years and tell him he is not allowed to have a beer because he is not an adult yet. what I am doing here is calling attention to the over-regulation of things in the form of age restrictions, that are counter-productive and stupid.
I now live in Amsterdam, but grew up in southern California on the beach. years ago California used to be a cool place to live and everyone in the country liked it. then this nasty group of people I call "the regulators" got their hands on state government, and they started over regulating everything. now California is so over-regulated that nobody likes it any more, business is moving out, cost of living is going up, services are going down, crime is up, enjoyment is down. mostly all caused by too much regulation. stupid people love the phrase "the rules are the rules, you gotta have rules you know" well sometimes there are too many rules, too many age restrictions, too many regulations, and then people just say the hell with it.
the cure, or answer: start repealing a lot of laws and cancelling regulations and age restrictions. this is not uniquely my idea. it had been proposed by many presidents including teddy Roosevelt and JFK, who said congress should repeal 2 laws for every one they pass. so now then all you good parents. how do you feel about all the rules and regulations we impose on our kids???
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