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There are far too many road accidents so I think the driving age being 18 (as it is where I live), is good.
I think consent should be 16, which I think it is here. Before that, I seriously doubt any teenager has the maturity to understand much about sex, and I don't just mean physically.
Drinking and voting - 18 (also what it is in Portugal). Unlike what I see from Americans, we don't complain much about legal age to do things here so I think it works for us generally. Also, it's pretty easy to get a drink from 16 upwards. So maybe it could be 16, I don't see the harm. I think the occasional drop of wine or champagne in the home, for a celebration, with supervision, is also ok, before that age.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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