Legal age of drinking, smoking and driving in most countries is higher than age of consent. Why is it believed one needs to be older to engage in those activities?
Any thoughts are welcome (not sure if this is a suitable topic for discussion on lichess, but I just want to hear what others think about this)
I don't get it.
by the age of 16 your hormone production is still really high, and while you can consent you are bound to do stupider stuff.
by 20 hormone production should slow down, and you are less likely to do stupid stuff.
I have a lot of thoughts on this but will respond later. Just have some homework right now, nothin' more.
Can somebody tag me after an hour?
The legal age of drinking , smoking,... here is 18.
We must be wise and not do things that harm our bodies. For example, I will never be interested in smoking or drinking alcohol, even if I am older.
21 year olds are still kids in my opinion
In most countries, those ages are very close together with the exception of the US.
I think the big outlier is smoking, which most countries have as a higher age than the rest (again, with the exception of the US). There's no benefit to smoking, and certainly long-term health consequences for the smoker, and elevated risk for those around him. Two of my biggest regrets are smoking, and then after quitting, picking it back up again.
If tobacco were discovered today, it would never make it to market. It makes no sense for it to be a legal product, so it's unsurprising that the age to do so is as high as possible.
And I think in most countries, drinking age and age of consent are very close to one another. If there's one thing kids have done since time immemorial it's fornicate like bunnies; hormones are a helluva thing, and sex is both cheap and fun. The age of consent is to try and ensure a basic maturity to have the knowledge and means to do so as safely as possible.
Driving age is also generally generally closely correlated with drinking and consent. There's a greater risk to the public, and so there might be slight deviations.
The US, again, is a WEIRD outlier: a kid can vote for the President, can kill and die for the President, but can't raise his glass to the President. Oh, and to continue the thought: all while legally becoming addicted to a substance that will cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars over the years and will likely kill them slowly and painfully over the years.
The age of consent in Canada is 16. As of August 2018, each U.S. state has set its age of consent at either age 16, age 17, or age 18.
There is no age of consent in Iran, as all sexual activity outside of marriage is illegal. The minimum age of marriage for men is 18, and is 16 for women.
i wasn't lucky again bruh
In the United States, the minimum legal age to purchase any alcohol beverage from a shop, supermarket, liquor store, bar, club or any other licensed premises is 21 years of age; the two exceptions are Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands where the age is 18.
And my country again:
Since the Iranian Revolution of 1979, production, possession or distribution of any alcoholic beverages is illegal and punishable under Islamic law. ... While non-alcoholic beers are the only ones available from legal outlets, illegal alcoholic beers are smuggled into the country and consumed.
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In this damn country, nothing is allowed, even breathing the promises of the candidates is a bunch of lies. It is said that even more than seventy percent of the Iranian people do not participate in the elections
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Today, that dream has faded into a daily grinding nightmare of high inflation, an ever-weakening national currency and high unemployment worsened by the coronavirus pandemic.
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The people do not benefit from the country’s economy at all, mostly they are the main losers and are being looted by the officials.
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A country that is suffering from huge inflation taxes. The difference between ordinary taxes and inflation taxes is that ordinary taxes are levied on the wealthy and upper income classes, but inflation taxes are levied on the middle and lower classes. The function of this type of tax is elimination of the middle class and the increase of the poor.
Bottom line is that if you can join the army of your country and fight, risking your life, then you should have every right to , smoke, drink, drive, get married and vote at that age.
In Canada I think the drinking and smoking age is 19 and yet the driving age is 16. If anything, this doesn't make much sense. It should be the other way around. A person should have some practice drinking or smoking weed before they should be allowed in a vehicle that could potentially kill dozens of people.
There reasoning is skewed because most adults are just emotional children in big bodies and age is no indication of wisdom at all. By the time you are my age, you might realize that nothing much makes sense and there are no grownups in charge. Sorry.
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