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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

All of the 18-year olds will disagree. It would be quite cruel to take away their deserved freedoms of adulthood.

Sure if you're older than 25 or 30 you know that you're not fully mature at 18, but freedom is more important than being protected from all bad decisions.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I agree WRT things like voting. I believe if you're old enough to be drafted or to voluntarily enlist you're old enough to have a voice in government. But perhaps the draft age should be raised, if not outright abolished. The age to enlist should definitely be raised, as I feel exposing a kid, even one on the cusp of adulthood, to the horrors of war is abhorrent, doubly so if they are being conscripted.