So imagine conservatives are out there telling each other:
First they gave women rights, and I did nothing.
Then they gave black people rights, and I did nothing.
Then Obama gave consenting adults the right to get married, and I did nothing.
Then Hillary gave trans people rights, and I did nothing.
Then QAnon told me I needed to act—and there was no one left to bully.
After trans people, who's next on the basic human right's agenda?
Yeah kids need to know and have bodily autonomy. The US is the only country that hasn't signed on to the UN's rights of the child. And there's still probably a lot of pedos to kill.
Oh and alcohol tobacco and the :vote: should be younger. Age based prohibition is one of the biggest reasons behind America's shitty culture on substance abuse. And for voting, I was pretty sure at 16 that I had a better political grounding than any of the "adults" around and, now, while I'm definitely sure 16 year old me had a somewhat simplistic view of the world compared to current me, I also know they were a lot better at math than me so they may have been smarter because there have been like five untreated concussions since then, thanks, sport-pushing parents.
As long as kids are provided with a good political education I don't see any strong argument against letting sixteen year olds vote.
Traffic deaths went down when the drinking age went up. Maybe that's more a problem of car-dependent culture, but it's something to consider.
I guess the weird thing is having these things be set to a different age than adulthood, like the separation of drinking from other 'responsibilities' (not the right word but you know what I mean) is off, either your mature enough or not I guess is my mostly uninformed opinion.
Yeah, maybe move everything up to 25, supposed to be when the brain is actually fully developed, less impulsive. But that would hurt the prison and military industrial complex, gun sales, cig and booze sales, etc