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Originally Posted by fckm
No it's not!!! Apparently no one here has taken any courses in psychology. Like I've been saying before, a Child is mentally undeveloped. There are SIGNIFICANT mental differences between children and adults! And the sutle influence of adult on child cannot be discounted!
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I hold my b.a. in Psychology from Santa Clara U. Just fyi. I know children are not as "mentally developed" as adults. I am saying that adults are just as likely to be influenced as children. You can take that to the psychological bank. And you don't need to shout.
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Originally Posted by fckm
Children aren't taxed. They can't legally work bellow a certain age (I think it's around 15). Over that age, they aren't taxed. When I was working as a cashier in High School, I filled out a tax exemption form, and was never taxed. If anything, child tax credits means that children _recieve_ money from the government, not the other way around.
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I don't know about you, but I have paid taxes ever since I made my first purchase. I pay taxes for school lunches, I paied taxes for my slothing, I paid taxes when I started working at 15. I paid taxes when I bought my first car at 16.
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Originally Posted by fckm
take a psych course. You'll understand much better the difference between children and adults. Again, a five year old is not an adult with a small body.
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Of course not. You'll find that most adults that vote are uninformed, so maturity obviously has no direct connection to whether one should vote or not.
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Originally Posted by fckm
Assuming that you agree that children are not adults, you must realize that there needs to exist a line delineating legal adulthood. It is impossible to create some sort of adulthood test whereby each individual child is tested for adulthood and granted the rights thereof. Therefore, there needs to be a legal definition which separates children from adults. Any such line is arbitrary by definition. The reason why we choose 18 is because of cultural reasons. As such, these cultural reasons are as good as any, since the line is entirely arbitrary. Since the onset of puberty starts anywhere from 13-16 years old, 18 seems like a pretty fair choice.
CHILDREN ARE NOT ADULTS TRAPPED IN SMALL BODIES. GO TAKE A COURSE IN DEVELOPEMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, NEUROLOGY, BIOLOGY, ANYTHING!
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Still no need to yell, I'm right here (you should know that yelling is an intimidation tactic, and really isn't useful in conversation). Your argument bases on the belief that only adults should vote. You're having another argument. We are arguing whether minors should vote. We'll argue over what the age is seperating child from adult later.