Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y.

• Opisek@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Now I wonder, there are most certainly no such protections in place if an underage person goes into coma for long enough that their physical body is aged 18+. Wouldn’t your mind have experienced only very little development through that time, though?

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  • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The same laws that protect drunk, unconscious, disabled, senile, or otherwise incapacitated people would still apply. Here, the 18-year-old with a child’s mind would be deemed incompetent, and assigned a guardian.

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    • jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      what if they can prove competence?

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      • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Then we respect their personal agency.

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    • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There’s got to be something more concrete than that, should the guardian be the problem…

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      • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Laws are for generalities. Courts are for specificities. The situation you describe is resolved in the courts, not by legislation.

        If the guardian is the problem, the courts assign a new guardian. That guardian can be another relative, or it could be a department of the state.

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