Mentch
“Well the liberal Supreme Court of NYS apparently disagrees with you”
do you agree with every supreme court ruling? why would I?
“And clearly the use of ages such as 18 and 21 are used because it is understood that those ages represent levels of maturity so clearly they aren’t “arbitrary “”
hold it. so you are telling me that a 17 year old and 364 days is too imature to vote but the next day he gets maturity?
And if there were “extra” leap years during his 17 years so that on the day before his 18th birthday he is 6209 days old he is less mature than an 18 years old who is 6207 days old?
We draw a line there is an element of arbitreriness to it. We all agree that kids shouldnt vote/drink and adults could (some of them) so we draw a line someplace. Exactly where that line is drawn is obviosuly arbitrary.
Assuming we want a killer to have to pause after he has shot some kids, we have to draw a line someplace. So we arbitrarily draw the line at 7. Once he’s shot 7 kids its time for a brief timeout. Why is 10 a good number of shot people, that isnt the point much like why at 17 years and 364 days are you too imature to vote?
The line drawn IS arbitrary. There is nothing that inherently changes at age 18 or 21