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In the UK you can work and pay tax at 16, cant vote until 18... I see that as a mjor flaw.
If you are coerced to fund the state you should have the right to vote for the part of it that is accountable.
In the UK the age of consent is quite confused between 16 and 18
You can work at 13 part time (like as a paper boy), but you can work fulltime at 16 (although I think they are trying to force people to stay in education till 18 soon)
You can screw and smoke at 16, join the army at 17, drive a moped at 16, a car at 17, vote at 18, drink booze at 18, in a pub (but 16 in a restaurant with a meal) marry at 16 (or 18 without parental consent), work at 16, you legally are an adult at 18... until very recently the gay sex age of consent was different to the straight sex age of consent but that changed 10 years or so.
I think it makes sense to set one "age of consent" which I would place at 16.
I find it incredible that you can join the army at 17 (although you arent supposed to fight till 18) but you cant rent an action movie legally. That you can be married at 16, but not rent a movie with nudity in legally. That you can pay tax but not vote.
At 16 a lot of people arent grown up, but Im not grown up at 31...
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