What if kids could, at age fourteen, legally drop out of school, be kicked out of their parents' house, be held responsible for crimes, and work?

Would they act more responsibly and mature earlier on?

[Note: I am not talking about lowering the age of consent.]

Last edited by MrJiveBoJingles on Oct-18-2008 at 15:48

Did you just delete this thread and remake it?

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Originally posted by Frenchie Did you just delete this thread and remake it?

Yeah wtf.

I was about to post something thoughtful you SOB.

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Originally posted by Frenchie Did you just delete this thread and remake it?

No, I changed the stipulations so as not to include a lowered age of consent, diminishing the likelihood that the new thread would be dominated by horny idiots thinking about sex with teenagers.

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Originally posted by Project-K Yeah wtf. I was about to post something thoughtful you SOB.

So was I. I had it all typed out, and hit submit and the thread was gone. Fuck that noise.

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles No, I changed the stipulations so as not to include a lowered age of consent, diminishing the likelihood that the new thread would be dominated by horny idiots thinking about sex with teenagers.

I'm so sorry, it was only after I made my posts that I realized that I was merely derailing the thread. He's not talking about age of consent at all, don't mention it in here, make a new thread if you want to discuss that.

Sorry, Age of Majority != Age of Consent. I take full responsibility for the deletion of that thread. I hope you weren't too pissed off. I probably would have been a little annoyed myself. I completely sidestepped your topic and injected my own thing, my apologies.

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Originally posted by Akridrot I hope you weren't too pissed off. I probably would have been a little annoyed myself. I completely sidestepped your topic and injected my own thing, my apologies.

No, actually it was my fault for not thinking about it more thoroughly and seeing the potential for that. I was a bit ticked, yes, but mostly at myself, not you guys.

Kids dropping out of school at age 14 would have far too many negative repercussions.

We'd have a bunch of Googoolys running around.

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Originally posted by Renzo Kids dropping out of school at age 14 would have far too many negative repercussions. We'd have a bunch of Googoolys running around.

Maybe, but I have to doubt whether those kind of people -- ones who are either very stupid or simply don't care -- would learn much by being kept in school longer anyway. Seems rather unlikely to me that holding them longer does much good...

If my kid is 14 and not the smartest kid in the classroom, I'll make him study that much harder. No excuses. If he's apathetic and wants to stop school, I will beat the shit out of him until he regains focus.

He's 14. Like I give a fuck what he wants.

Dude what the fuck? What the fuck happend to the other thread?

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Originally posted by Direct Dude what the fuck? What the fuck happend to the other thread?

It got deleted.