Law Should Adulthood (The Rights To Vote, Smoke, Drink, Marry, Enlist, Bear Arms) Be 18 or 21?

[7437]

25. 21 year olds are still dumb as fuck.

And under 60. Enough with the senile.

 

[Devout Pessimist]

13 to be tried as an adult in a court of law
16 to start driving
17 to enlist (U.S.)
18 to smoke
21 to drink

And don't even get me started on the age of consent laws, romeo and juliet non-sense, etc.

We need to sit down, and decide which age is considered adult - and stick to it. To me, I think it's clearly not higher than 17. If you can enlist in the military at 17, and go fight and die, then you should be considered an adult.

But I'm conflicted on the issue. I was reading an article by Mia Khalifa, the porn star - I think it was on CNN or some shit, where she sat down with Lance Armstrong, and confessed how she wishes she never did porn, and she can't get a boyfriend or a real job, and she's humiliated her family. It was really fucking sad, and almost made me think that the age restriction for DOING porn should be higher. 18 year olds are idiots.

Entering into the porn industry should not be allowed until 21.

 

[PEDS Help me Post]

Entering into the porn industry should not be allowed until 21.

Then there'd only be MILF porn

 

[JDragon]

If they are going to raise the age to purchase a firearm to 21, are they also going to not allow anyone under 21 to enter into contract alone? Will felony convictions no longer apply until after 21 years old?

If these states keep pushing these blatant age discrimination laws, it's going to set up a very winnable "equal protection under the law" challenge.

I wonder about driving and alcohol.

 

[Thurisaz]

I'd say 21 is a lot better age for adulthood - once children were raised better and were able to make it on their own, with help from their family, of course - but today people are more and more raised by the media and SJW institutions and have little grasp of reality and vote and act worse than zombies at age of 18. IIRC it's also more in line with the Bible.

Build your communities, shield your children from SJW poison (mass media, public schools, pop whores, trannies and pedos et al) and model them good behavior with your own example. They really need it these days, as the healthy alternative isn't offered at all in the poisoned mainstream.

 

[MilesAbove]

Whenever they ask you to take up a gun for your flag... that's when you should have all adult rights.

 

[Mani]

You need to lower the drinking age in America.

 

[Arkain2K]

Well the human brain isn't fully formed until the age of 25.

I'm always surprized that the age of consent in America isn't 16 like it is in the countries i've lived in, it makes no sense.

So are you advocating for Adulthood at 16 or 25...?

 

[WarDosAnjos]

I think it should be 21 in my opinion. I know I was an absolute idiot at 18 and wasn't anywhere close to fully maturing. If you're going to have to alcohol age be 21 why pick and choose on issues. Just make everything 21. Well I think you should have the right to declare yourself independent and live on your own at 18 but I don't think it's right to treat 18 year old as if they are fully mature

 

[Jorge Luis Borges]

I think they should lower the ages for all weapons.


Why arm the teachers when you can just arm the students?

The students should be issued an AR-15 and three grenades upon enrollment to school.

The good guys with the guns will definitely outnumber the bad guys with the guns.

 

[PEDS Help me Post]

Exactly.

That second girl from the right has the eye of the tiger. If she was at Columbine the death count would have been one. Just him.

 

[Arkain2K]

Why are 18 Year Olds Considered Adults:

 

[MMAViewer]

Here's the breakdown, Sherbros.

Sexual consent: 14
Voting: 18
Buy handguns/semi-autos: 21
Rent a car: 25

Rent a car is not a right or a law. It's just a wise company policy.
We need more wisdom.

 

[Amerikuracana]

I've worked at a strip club for years in Toronto and when I first worked there I almost served an under-aged dancer by accident because I just assumed she was of drinking age because she worked there. I didn't even really think about it.


It was a bit of an eye-opener to realize that she was deemed old enough to take off her clothes and grind on men's laps at 18 years old but wasn't legally allowed to have a drink while she did it until she was 19. Weird stuff.

How hot was she?

 

[Arkain2K]

No poll?

Poll added with the top 3 choices! Thanks @Lead!

 

[djacobox372]

According to the constitution you aren't an adult until 35yo.

 

[PEDS Help me Post]

How hot was she?

I don't exaggerate when I say she's a 10. She was probably the hottest girl I've seen there and definitely had a world-ranked ass.


Unfortunately, her personality was about a 1 and she was hardcore pimped out by the guy in the picture I posted below. He's since been arrested for murdering two people because they asked him for directions outside a Chinese restaurant in Toronto. He was the gang leader for a pretty notorious gang that basically kidnapped (in some cases) and pimped out girls in Toronto , sold drugs ... oh and murdered people for basically no reason.

 

[Arkain2K]

Texas raises tobacco age to 21 as e-cigarette use grows among youth
By KRISTIN HOPPA | Aug 31, 2019

Everett Mason has been using vape pens since he was about 16 years old.

Now, the 18-year-old Hewitt resident will have to wait another three years before he can legally buy tobacco products, including his e-cigarettes, in the state of Texas.

“I really don’t think it’s going to change anything,” Mason said. “People are still going to smoke. It really isn’t going to matter.”

The new state law takes effect Sunday, along with more than 800 others recently passed. It raises the legal age from 18 to 21 for the sale, distribution, possession, purchase, consumption or receipt of cigarettes, e-cigarettes, dip or any other tobacco products. According to the anti-smoking coalition website texas21.org, about 95% of smokers start before the age of 21.

E-cigarettes have been the most commonly used tobacco product among youth since 2014, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services. Last year, 20.8% of high school students surveyed in the United States reported using e-cigarettes in the past 30 days, a 9.1% increase from the previous year, according to the department.

“I don’t think I’m going to quit, but honestly I don’t think it’s fair,” Mason said of the law. “It is just now come up because of the school situation and that’s why they are changing it.”

Though e-cigarette use has grown among high school students, smoking overall is declining.

Locally, 20.1% of Waco adults reported smoking, according to 2016 data collected by City Health Dashboard. In 2015, 21.4% of Waco adults reported smoking, according to the service.

“The overall trend throughout the United States, including in Waco, is that less people are smoking,” said Kelly Craine, spokesperson for the Waco-McLennan County Public Health District.

The city of Waco banned smoking in bars, restaurants and other enclosed public spaces with an ordinance passed in 2015.

“Throughout the country, smoking rates have dramatically dropped for the past 20 years for a variety of reasons,” Craine said. “Education, smoking ordinances, businesses having no smoking within their offices makes a big difference, so there are plenty of businesses that have smoke-free campuses on their properties, so that has changed a lot of things.”

Texas is at least the 16th state to make 21 the minimum age for tobacco. Arkansas, California, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Utah, Vermont, Virginia and Washington, along with 450 cities and counties, have made 21 the minimum tobacco age, according to texas21.org.

According to the Texas Tribune, tobacco law enforcement efforts can be costly. Texas lawmakers allocated about $9.5 million in this year’s budget to reduce the use of tobacco products across the state — about $3 million more than the last budget — but that money is largely dedicated to prevention and education rather than enforcement, the Tribune reported.

Craine said the new age restriction may help by limiting the number of opportunities younger Texans have to smoke.

https://www.wacotrib.com/news/gover...cle_b0597f92-d82a-55a5-b2e9-90ef6d5d7adb.html

 

[grimballer]

I would push it to 25 to be honest

Most kids in their 20s are dumbasses

After 25 there are still some dumbasses but not as many.

Generally they calm down after that age n are not as impressionable.

 

[JDragon]

This discrepancy between 18 year old adults and 21 years old adults is getting really ridiculous.

As I have said before, I don't care where the government place the arbitrary mark for legal Adulthood, as long as it's consistent. You are either legally an Adult, or you're not.

German law considers person's aged 18-21 as adolescents. In these cases, the court decides based on expert advice whether to try the accused as adults or under Youth Penal Law.

I think this is reasonable.

I do agree that the American distinction regarding driving/booze/porn/voting ages is a bit ridiculous. But also the 'He fucked a 17 years 364 old, he's a sex offender pedo criminal' vs. 'He fucked an 18 year 1 day old, stag likes his pussy young' - I think societies must be able to cope with some shades of grey. Not everything is always black and white.