While I don't disagree raven, you bring up a lot of points I used to debate with when I argued with my family. However how do you ensure the safety of certain individuals without some marginalization.
Take sex as an example. I think we can agree that not everyone who is 14 should be having sex. They can't handle it. Hence why laws are in place in certain areas. Lets say we remove those laws. This opens up those who can't naturally handle the repercussions & responsibilities of having sex (std, pregnancy etc) How does that get handled? Do we leave it to the parents who are doing a random job of raising kids? Schools? Or do we just let chaos be chaos and hope for the best.
Apply that to your driving rentals. This one is likely easier to deal with, but how do you NOT have blanket laws, or do you just let the 21 to 24 year olds run wild and hope that they don't get into accidents, which is statistically higher in that age group and sex.
Just curious, I am far from arguing, your points are valid. But no one has ever been able to give me a good alternative to think of that would
a) not marginalize
b) still leave people safe when they can't take responsibility themselves. (unfortunately, in a perfect world, personal responsibility is almost a utopia...as it stands now, its "oh shit I made a mistake, who can I blame?")
I spent a lot of time arguing these points when I was younger, as a conservative (Canadian mind you) I could see both sides of the coin. I would love to hear your points, and they don't have to be specific to mine, as the argument is pretty generic.
How do you have controls in place to help those people who for whatever reason are not mature and/or old enough to help themselves, while they fully believe they are doing good things. Or are you talking about opening up completely and letting the coins fall as they may.
Take sex as an example. I think we can agree that not everyone who is 14 should be having sex. They can't handle it. Hence why laws are in place in certain areas. Lets say we remove those laws. This opens up those who can't naturally handle the repercussions & responsibilities of having sex (std, pregnancy etc) How does that get handled? Do we leave it to the parents who are doing a random job of raising kids? Schools? Or do we just let chaos be chaos and hope for the best.
Apply that to your driving rentals. This one is likely easier to deal with, but how do you NOT have blanket laws, or do you just let the 21 to 24 year olds run wild and hope that they don't get into accidents, which is statistically higher in that age group and sex.
Just curious, I am far from arguing, your points are valid. But no one has ever been able to give me a good alternative to think of that would
a) not marginalize
b) still leave people safe when they can't take responsibility themselves. (unfortunately, in a perfect world, personal responsibility is almost a utopia...as it stands now, its "oh shit I made a mistake, who can I blame?")
I spent a lot of time arguing these points when I was younger, as a conservative (Canadian mind you) I could see both sides of the coin. I would love to hear your points, and they don't have to be specific to mine, as the argument is pretty generic.
How do you have controls in place to help those people who for whatever reason are not mature and/or old enough to help themselves, while they fully believe they are doing good things. Or are you talking about opening up completely and letting the coins fall as they may.