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[-] VelvetStorm@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago

These are full-grown adults in university. They are not kids.

[-] JWBananas@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago

It's all relative

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 2 years ago

I greeted my fellow 20-ish-year-olds with "what's up kids" at that age as a way of saying we were still young party machines. I am not disrespecting these folks.

[-] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 years ago

I don't think I'd consider most 18 year old "full grown adults"

[-] VelvetStorm@lemmy.world -2 points 2 years ago

Old enough to be sent to die and kill innocent non white people for profit so they are old enough to be adults.

[-] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

The vast, vast majority of 18 year olds are not in the military, and it's really weird to consider all 18 year olds adults because a tiny fraction of them are soldiers

[-] VelvetStorm@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I never once said they all were in the military or that them being in the military made them adults. I said if we consider them adult enough to be able to do that, then we need to just consider them adults in general.

[-] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah, and I think that's stupid. It doesn't match reality. Just because 18 happens to be the age at which some policy says you're allowed to be a solider, doesn't magically make it the age that teens become adults.

[-] VelvetStorm@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago
[-] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago
[-] bitwaba@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

At least the other guy has the benefit of legal definitions on his side.

[-] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago

My point is that the legal definitions don't match reality.

[-] bitwaba@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

You failed to provide an alternative though. So as far as anyone else here knows your criteria is completely arbitrary.

[-] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Huh? Who says I have to provide an alternative? You're the only one making up arbitrary criteria here

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