Lemmy’s written in Rust?! That’s cool.

English people on their way to ruin the meaning of every word.

“Freedom of opinion is overrated” - The actions of a certain someone.

I am serious, work is a very effective psychological cure, and is human nature.

(Or maybe you’re sarcastically acting surprised of a too-obvious sentence?)

In the context of the post, 17 year olds are incapable of ‘Having and fulfilling adult responsibilities’ while 18s fully can, which doesn’t make sense biologically, therefore putting arbitrary age restrictions doesn’t make sense.

You become an adult when you become an adult and your psyche will be able to deal with things when it becomes able, not when you live for 6570 days (18 years) or whatever.

We don’t have evidence that that specific - and imaginary - 13 year old isn’t, maybe he isn’t fully ready, but he’s ready enough to deal with what he has to deal with. (remember people don’t go from being treated like kids to having a 9 to 5, I am not saying we should let him bear his responsibility fully, but I think many 13 year olds, depending on how they’re raised and genetics and climate and other factors, can have a part time job - at least, and do have the spirit of an adult, if not the the full set of abilities)

Also it is for the better to keep everyone close to using most of their abilities, abundant free time will lead to psychological issues most of the time, burying your worries in work is mostly healthy and increases the quality of life.

(That obviously dependents on WHAT you’re burying, but work is probably the cure)

(Also I am not saying we should kick 13 year olds from school and encourage them to get jobs instead of education)

Being an adult has nothing to do with age, I saw 30 year-old children and 13 year-old men.

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Who said I want to?

I don’t expect many to agree, as my opinion is based on me not considering 13 and 14 Year olds children, what is really the difference between 16 - again, to be on the safe side - year olds and 18 year olds that give the latter that much more freedom?

Also I despise pre marriage sex if that adds anything to the conversation.

I am not encouraging 13 year olds - or people of any age - to marry people outside their age group, I think that’s wrong under normal circumstances.

Edit: considering how fast people grow at the age of 13 their age group would be… 14 Year olds max I guess?

Edit 2: duo to how the laws of a nation cover a very wide range of people, I think we should - for the purposes of law - go the safe route and give these rights at 16, if nations normalize 16 year olds having sex then allowing marriage should be a no brainer.

Also someone else mentioned alchohol so I have to elaborate, in my perfect country, alcohol would be banned in all its - non medical - forms regardless of age.

Edit 3 : I have no idea what would qualify as an “abnormal circumstance” before anyone asks.

Edit 4 : I think porn should be banned in all its forms as well before anyone asks.

Edit 5 : I just googled IDF and libertarians and understood the meme, I just saw “12 year olds are not children” and decided to share an opinion that I still hold.

Edit 6 : If you think about it in the context of restructuring society in the way I want it to be - which isn’t detailed in this comment - it sounds like a really good idea, but sadly society is corrupted and almost beyond repair.

I do not understand this meme.

Considering people under 18 children is exaggerating, 13 (or whenever you hit puberty) is about the age when people can get a job, get married, and fight in war if it weren’t for society brainwashing and labeling them as children, history is with me on this one.

Some cop was trying to use his position as a cop to get 5 free loaves of bread, and the bakery guy was like: “Hey person’s name get the camera, and post it titled ‘the police stealing from citizens’” and the cop was like : “yeah, uhh… escapes with his partner”.

Social media platforms generally only lose money.