age descrimination Options

[iheartsimba]

do you think society has age descrimination?
(with laws, or parent rules, or school rules, ect)?

[Nashvixen]

Okay, I stopped reading the replies after this last quote on mine.

No, its not age discrimation... its based on maturity... you arent gonna give a 10 year old a liscense to drive... you are gonna give a 13 year old some alcohol... and you are gonna let a 9 year old vote...

its all maturity

There is a huge difference between age and maturity! My dad is racist and most of our problems arise from our disagreements about this. I'm sorry but I do not accept that someone is more mature than me if that person discriminates against others for no reason whatsoever! (He's also sexist.)
I think that there is age discrimination, obviously, but there's no legit way of proving that someone is as they say they are. The government isn't going to go out of their way to follow you around to see if you're mature enough to impose an intellectual vote.

a little age discrimination. say a 16 year old and 40 year old are argueing, both have equal knowledge but opposing positions on a subject. Who do you think a majority of people will side with? Not the "stupid kid", cause he doesn't know the reallll world mannnnnn. Stupid adults 

I have argued with a 40-year-old and a 46-year-old and I can say that my experience with some folks isn't the sweetest tasting nectar. I feel that earlier generations are closed-minded because of the way they were taught to think.
I think that some "minors" should be able to vote, but only if they have a legit cause. If someone runs for president solely to legalize marijuana, every pot-smoker in the country will root and vote for him. (I'd have to say, if a woman ran for president, I'd be the first to give a standing innovation.)
Yes, my also doesn't think I know what the infamous "real world" is, but I'd beg to differ. OMG, what the heck, if I really don't know what the "real world" is, I hope to find out what... and why I'm not there!

Thats all part of maturity and experience... older people have been through a lot more than you... you just have to accept that

Nope, sorry. Some people have been so overprotected their entire life, and they can't compare themselves to someone who's been through it all.
Brainwashed 41-year-old woman, caters to her husbands every need without question maturer than a 18-year-old tax-paying, blue collar person from an abusive home and hard childhood, thinking about the big picture, not their own desires. Yeah. Experience...Age... Think about it.

Of course there's discrimination. An 18 year old can go but a pack of cigarettes, but a 16 year old can't... A 22 year old can buy some beer but a 19 year old can't... A 30 year old can vote, but a 15 year old can't. That's dicrimiating. It doesn't nessecarilly have to connote something bad, but it IS technically discrimination

I feel you here, but it really doesn't place a good debate. There are reasons minors and some adults aren't allowed to comsume alcohol. That wouldn't be discriminating. Generalizations would have served you better, but, like I said, I agree to an extent.