Do you drive a car?

[BitBuster]

Age limits are set because we need cutoffs. In a perfect world, a step to the next level would be based on the maturity of the individual. That is the job of parenting. However, in the legal world, you are not allowed to discriminate, so we must require arbitrary standards which are not necessarily relevant to either ability or maturity.

Well, it's one thing for the standards to be arbitrary; it's another for them to be completely pointless.



I can go along with setting 18 as the age at which you can legally buy cigs; I don't agree with that, but I can go along with that. What boggles my mind is that a 16-year-old can't buy cigarettes but CAN be arrested, prosecuted, and sentenced to death for a crime. You're not mature enough to decide whether or not you want to ruin your lungs, but you ARE mature enough to know right from wrong...that just makes no sense to me.