>It's a real thing. They are not children.

get arrested for smoking pot at 15?
have fun explaining that to future employers when you are 30.

kids do dumb shit.
which makes sense. adult ppl are stupid and kids are stupider versions of adults.

so we really need to reevaluate how we treat our children.
we should want to provide environments where they can make mistakes
and not pay for them for the rest of their adult lives.

if we are really thinking about "the children,"
that's what we'd do.

but ppl care about "the children" the same way ppl care about "the troops."



which is to say, they don't-- unless they are trying to score
cheap points in a political argument.