I don't think there should be one set age of adulthood. You don't magically metamorphose into an adult at a certain age. Your "adultness" develops on a continuum. By age 17 most people are as competent as an 18 year old, so to show immense sympathy for a 17 year old but near total apathy for an 18 year old is moronic. That being said, your prefrontal cortex continues to develop well into your 30s and perhaps your 40s, and there are significant differences in maturity between say an 18 year old and a 25 year old.
As I have said in one of my IIN stories, I think it should be determined by a series of tests within a certain age range, say 16-25. When you turn 16, you become eligible to take a certain series of courses and tests to be allowed to participate in the adult activities earlier, and such programs would be available in school curriculums (like Civics 101 for voting, Impulse Control 101 for drinking, Economics 101 for stocks, Driving 101 for obvious reasons). Alternatively, you could wait until you are 25 if you find them too hard or you're a dropout, where you would be granted your full range of adult rights.
This would not be accurate, you cant determine how responsible a person is by how smart they appear on paper. My brother got all A and I only ever could get B but if we look at my reasoning skills they are far better in most situations. They never had a lot of common sense but clearly he should be ahead based on grades. So that simply is not logical and a very very misguided belief.
I never said that the courses would pure paperwork. School grades are more about intelligence than self mastery, so you could have the maturity of a 10 year old and still do well. It would have some controlled, hands on experience that deal with reasoning skills and control (i.e. EQ instead of intelligence) to prep them for the adult world.
Do you think they should raise the age of adulthood to 21 ?
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I don't think there should be one set age of adulthood. You don't magically metamorphose into an adult at a certain age. Your "adultness" develops on a continuum. By age 17 most people are as competent as an 18 year old, so to show immense sympathy for a 17 year old but near total apathy for an 18 year old is moronic. That being said, your prefrontal cortex continues to develop well into your 30s and perhaps your 40s, and there are significant differences in maturity between say an 18 year old and a 25 year old.
As I have said in one of my IIN stories, I think it should be determined by a series of tests within a certain age range, say 16-25. When you turn 16, you become eligible to take a certain series of courses and tests to be allowed to participate in the adult activities earlier, and such programs would be available in school curriculums (like Civics 101 for voting, Impulse Control 101 for drinking, Economics 101 for stocks, Driving 101 for obvious reasons). Alternatively, you could wait until you are 25 if you find them too hard or you're a dropout, where you would be granted your full range of adult rights.
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This would not be accurate, you cant determine how responsible a person is by how smart they appear on paper. My brother got all A and I only ever could get B but if we look at my reasoning skills they are far better in most situations. They never had a lot of common sense but clearly he should be ahead based on grades. So that simply is not logical and a very very misguided belief.
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I never said that the courses would pure paperwork. School grades are more about intelligence than self mastery, so you could have the maturity of a 10 year old and still do well. It would have some controlled, hands on experience that deal with reasoning skills and control (i.e. EQ instead of intelligence) to prep them for the adult world.