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Originally Posted by Knalus
I find that highly suspicious that the age you picked fits so neatly with American drinking laws.
And not every brain is the same. By some standards, some brains never develop.
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Agreed. Like I said in my othher post, the brain and mind are always developing. Picking an arbitrary age when you become an "Adult" is pretty ridiculous. And arbitrarily choosing 21 is even more ridiculous. At that age I was in my final year of undergrad and about to enter the workforce. 50 years ago, not so coincidentally, I would have been getting married and about to have my own children.
The age of 21 is essentially a way of enforcing prohibition. Up until very recently, you would have been in school/army/training for a trade until age 21. Then you would have been married with children afterwards. Choosing the age of 21 essentially cut out all partying, which was the goal of the puritans who put that law in place.