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Originally Posted by baddog
Not sure how old you are; but 19 year olds have been kids to me for quite a while. Agreed, Tamerlan was not a kid.
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I'm 51. But I certainly don't consider a 19 year old adult man to be a "kid".
Just because I'm old doesn't mean a man is not a man. Our society set the limit of "adult" at 18 for legal reasons (signing a legal contract).
Doesn't mean that plenty of people 15, 16, and 17 aren't already full grown men and women.
They certainly used to be considered so.
Just because society in one little current fraction of time in history that is barely a blip on the screen chooses it to be 18 doesn't mean it's "right" (or "wrong" for that matter)
But can we PLEASE stop acting like grown men and women are "children".
It makes us all look foolish.