They don’t want the right to privacy and freedom for adults either though. Sure they might say they do if you ask them but as soon as they’re mildly inconvenienced by a protest or someone mentions children are in danger they’re all in favour of spying and censorship laws
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JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I’m disappointed that most people seem to treat kids as subhuman, not needing the basic right privacy and freedom that they want for adults so much.
Infernal_pizza@lemmy.world 8 months ago
CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 8 months ago
This is a horrible truth. Treating kids as though their opinion matters is considered insanity.
Wanderer@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Do people even use the term young adult anymore?
Infantising of adults I think is a huge issue we have in society.
It was the case that 16 was defacto adulthood in years gone by. Now I hear people saying you aren’t an adult till 25 or 30! If there are 25 year old wandering around that aren’t adults it’s a failing of the parents and society.
In school when we hit ~16 we got treated entirely differently, the teachers talked to us instead of parents, we was in control of our time. They joked with us. It really made me grow up because I got treated like a grown up.
Same thing with scouts and rugby when I was younger, being pushed to be responsible made me grow. As eduction improves overtime we should be making more capable 18 year old not less.
feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s more of an American thing I think. A 20-year-old child, I’ve literally seen that phrase used. Mental.
bigMouthCommie@kolektiva.social 8 months ago
with modern science, we have learned that the prefrontal cortex hasn't fully developed until around age 25. does that mean you're a child at 24? no. but you are adolescent, and we should have some cognizance about that
Alpha71@lemmy.world 8 months ago
If you cannot behave like an adult by the age of 24 there’s something more wrong with you than your prefrontal cortex.
feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I have ADHD, I don’t think mine will ever fully develop.
jerrythegenius@lemmy.world 8 months ago
“Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along - the same person that I am today. I never felt that I spoke childishly. I never felt that my emotions and desires were somehow less real than adult emotions and desires.”
—Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
It’s important to note that a big part of that book is repeated evidence that Ender is not a “normal” child. He is heavily implied to have murdered one of his bullies before he was ever pulled out of society and into training (where he explicitly kills another bully).
jerrythegenius@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Nah that quote’s from the foreword