The first we should do away with is the age requirement for driving. With a decent booster seat, any toddler is perfectly capable of handling two tons of mobile steel. Next step, voting age. Any child is capable of grasping the issues important in choosing a leader, and placing an uninfluenced vote. Since I've mentioned being uninfluenced, jury duty should be next. Clearly, every citizen is a peer, therefore a jury of one's peers shouldn't leave out a whole sector of citizenry just because they are age-challenged.
With rights comes responsibility, however. Now that we've allowed our wee ones to vote, drive, and generally enjoy all the rights of citizenry, it is no more than normal that we should expect them to be willing to fight to uphold those rights, so the draft age should be lowered to birth, or weaning at the very latest. They should start filing tax returns by then, also. Clearly, since the "only purpose of minimum age laws is to give the government/society ample time to condition/brainwash children before letting them make decisions," all minimum age laws should be abolished, and our youngest citizens should toddle up to take their rightful place in society. |
