Have you really put that much thought into your post before actually looking up how my comments are interlinked in their conjoined message? I'm sorry if that's how it seemed, but I'll clarify this:
I'm not saying older>younger. I'm commenting that it's clear from what the poster wrote that he's naive. I'm commenting his individual maturity, which correlates to the general maturity of his age group. Clearly the person doesn't realize why there are age limits for things.
I've been 14 too, and the only reason I can find that he feels discriminated is that he's not well educated enough in how these things (age limits) work and why they're enforced. That's something he should get either from school or his parents (I got from both sources, from school at 13 years of age and from parents well before that).
How does any of this make me selfish? He's 14 and he doesn't understand how things work yet, and that's why one shouldn't blurt out anything without knowing more about it. But that doesn't mean I will treat him any better just because he's younger. Regardless of age I think that he's being naive and speaking like a kid. He should learn this.
If you want to you can try to enforce a system which measures individual maturity efficiently and cost-effectively. That'd be grand.
But as it's now that's not possible and for now we'll have to decide the general maturity of the population at certain ages through enforcing an age limit. And that's how it works.
Okay, this is just insulting. I have Asperger's, which has given me a great intelligence. I've been studying Calculus at 13, and for the last 3 years I've been constantly correcting everything my teachers say. I've been playing the piano for half a year now and I'm working on the third movement of Beethoven's moonlight sonata. I try to achieve perfection at everything I do, and it always eventually happens, usually 10 or 20 times faster than normal. I hate showing off, but sometimes the ignorance and conservatism of people is too much to take. The mother of a classmate of mine had the same attitude you have, when I confronted her about her flawed parenting. "I am not going to bother talking with a 14 year old." was her signature reply to everything, even though we both knew I was correct. I am much more mature than every 18-year old I know, and it makes me mad when people don't take me seriously because of my age.
I am sure you have been 14 too, but the fact that you were not like me does not prove anything. I am more than well enough educated about how age limits work, and I am also well enough educated to prove how the way they work is conservative, discriminatory and ridiculous. The fact that I comment on how things are incorrect does not imply that I am unfamiliar with the subject. And last time I checked, "speaking like a kid" meant ignoring grammar, arguing without backing up your case, and swearing excessively. Last time I checked, none of those conditions were met by my posts.
I am not saying every kid should be given adult rights, I know statistically (my school), that a lot of kids are idiotic. However, same goes for a lot of adults. In fact, turning 18 does not cure you from idiocy. Nothing will cure anybody from idiocy. What I
am saying, is that there should be no "adult" rights. A more correct system, would be to make everybody have an IQ test and put the result on their IDs. Then, we could write laws about rights around that. For example, banning everybody with an IQ less than 80 from drinking. That would work much better than what we have now. Age discrimination is effectively the same as racism and sexism, and its funny how while the society frowns upon the last two, nobody gives the crap about age discrimination.
tl;dr: Stop treating me like an idiot. I am correct and you know it.
