Financial Shakeup this weekend

[emayer]

Wellardmac wrote:

You make a good point in that discipline has been eroded. Corporal punishment is not illegal, despite what some do-gooders would like to believe. Without discipline kids cannot learn boundaries and all hell breaks loose.

As for giving drugs to kids to make them behave - that's just reprehensible. There's no excuse for avoiding the issue by turning kids into zombies. Discipline is the answer.

Now, I fundamentally disagree with the comment on the teenage cancer patient. He's 16 years old and old enough to understand cause, effect, and consequence. If he wants to follow that path, then that's fine in my book, who are we to tell him what to do with his body? You wouldn't do it to a 17 or 18 year old, why would you do it to a 16 year old? By the time the case went to court he was 17, going on 18, is it still acceptable to tell him what's best for him? We used to have kids working and having families at that age - it's only our current society that wraps them in cotton wool and refuses to let them grow up.

Unless the child is an emancipated minor, the legal age for medical consent is 18. You may agree with me on this already, but if a child is mature enough to render these decisions, what is the logic of the drinking age being 21? I could never understand this as an 18 year-old can be drafted and killed in battle and has the legal responsibilities of an adult. If we are concerned about the well being at maturity of young adults, shouldn't these other rights and responsibilities be at age 21 as well?