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To: highball

Consider this. There is a California state congressman(democrat) currently putting through legislation to lower the legal voting age from 18 to 12. You can take it from there.


149 posted on 10/24/2005 2:00:35 PM PDT by Mulch (tm)
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To: Mulch
Consider this. There is a California state congressman(democrat) currently putting through legislation to lower the legal voting age from 18 to 12. You can take it from there.

So what? If any legislature votes to lower the age of adulthood, that is the state's business.

If a state ever determines that a 12 year-old can vote, if a state ever determines that a 12 year-old can own property in his own name and sign contracts and have all the other rights and responsibilities of adulthood, then and only then does a 12 year-old have the right to engage in whatever consentual sexual practices they want. That's what being a adult means.

Seems to me that your beef is with anyone who would lower the age of majority. I would agree, since I don't think that most kids are ready for those responsibilities at such an age. But if that's what a state wants, a state should be allowed to do it. It's their business where they want to draw the line between adult and child. It has no real bearing on the conversation except to raise some sort of emotional hackles.

156 posted on 10/24/2005 2:11:48 PM PDT by highball ("I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Mulch

Consider this. There is a California state congressman(democrat) currently putting through legislation to lower the legal voting age from 18 to 12. You can take it from there.


Here is the film version of that senario.

"Wild in the streets"

http://iafrica.imdb.com/title/tt0063808/


161 posted on 10/24/2005 2:21:11 PM PDT by Boiler Plate
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