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Sic Semper Tyrannis!
- Jul 10, 2008
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Quote: We don't need a nanny state
No nanny state just 21 for drinking and combat
Age 18 for the rest
Just don't put a 0 to 20 year olds life in danger
because it's not right.
21 to handle drinking and combat.
Baltimore Bob
Sorry Bob, I've been drinking since I was quite young and fucking and fighting too. I don't think there's anything wrong with a 13 or 14 year old being given the responsibility of an "adult". I think the ideas our current culture has about age/responsibility are all fucked up. 200 years ago we didn't think 2x about calling "kids" adults and letting them self determine... If anything kids today are more aware and more ready to take control and be adults. I would have gladly taken responsibility for myself at 15 or 16 if our culture would have let me. I think people that want to keep young people artificially children are doing more of a disservice than anything else. Please... let us succeed or fail on our own terms, isn't that the same chance you got? If not, isn't it what you wanted???
Really? So then you have a full time job to replace the one you were fired from, and at the ripe old age of 18, you're fully on your own, supporting yourself, depending on nobody for anything, right? You have your own apartment, make your own rent payment, your own car, making your own car payment, your own insurance, making your own insurance payment, buying your own food, clothes, other necessities, etc, you are not dependent upon anyone else in any way, shape, or form for anything financial, and you've had all of that since you were 15 or 16?
Why do I find that so hard to believe?
If not, why not?
Hmmm.....well, let's look at me and not Amanda.
I enlisted in the US Army at 17 years old as E-4. Yes, I was completely out on my own and nobody caring for me but Uncle Sugar. Yes, I made my own car payments, insurance payments, saved for old age and donated to the Old Soldier's Home. Uncle Sugar did give me a clothing allowance of about $10 a month.
I was married at 18 and supported a wife and her son from previous and had one of my own by the time I was 19. I managed to suscessfully juggle the various responsibliities as required of this situation. (Including the hazards of living in one of the highest cost areas in the country (Monterey, CA) and making less than $900 per month total. We still managed to make it.
I managed to remain employed for more than my full term for 5 years. What's so hard to believe?