[lbo-talk] Susie Bright on Foley etc

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 10/3/06, ylle521 at highstream.net <ylle521 at highstream.net> wrote:
> Does that mean you support minors over, say, 14, being prosecuted as
> adults for crimes, as well?     After all, they're not kids.

That's a good question.  Consenting to sex, consenting to enlistment
in the military, signing contracts in general, assuming the rights
(e.g., voting, driving, drinking, and so on) and responsibilities
(e.g., abiding by laws and accepting punishments when one doesn't) as
adults -- all require an ability to make judgments as adults.  So, the
logic of liberalism as political philosophy appears to dictate that
the age of making judgments as adults be the same in all spheres of
life.

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