I think 25 is the right age to vote. You should have lived long enough to see and understand the way the world and the system really works. I was a naive idiot until I got up into my twenties.
Yeah, like I said, I'm 23, and I do think I came a long way from when I was 18 but I still think I have a little more growing up to do before I think I'm a full 'adult'. I've been on my own since I was 21 but I'm just now getting the steady job and the steady place to live and the steady life instead of the picking up an odd job or two to get by and living the partying, Bohemian lifestyle like I did for so long. That's part of why I think 25 would be the perfect age, cause at that point chances are you've grown up more than enough to be trusted enough to vote.
25-27 also happens to be the age your brain is fully developed. Wacky hormones thanks to puberty tend to settle down, too (I felt the latter really strongly considering I have an endocrine issue that affects my hormones. I could literally feel the change in my mental state at 17, and feel yet another big change at 27.)
Fun fact: This is why I think Marijuana use shouldn't be legal until at least 25 or 27 because it's greatest effects are on the developing brain. Literally dumbs people down over time and slows/blocks aspects of development. And the effects are quite prominent with repeated use, which college-aged students & younger, especially the partiers, tend to do.
Same thing for transgender kids/people who want to get surgery or take hormones to that create permanent changes. Hormones would affect gender disphoria a lot & so you should wait until your system settles itself & susses out its own problems as much as possible before taking drastic measures.
I think 25 is the right age to vote. You should have lived long enough to see and understand the way the world and the system really works. I was a naive idiot until I got up into my twenties.
Yeah, like I said, I'm 23, and I do think I came a long way from when I was 18 but I still think I have a little more growing up to do before I think I'm a full 'adult'. I've been on my own since I was 21 but I'm just now getting the steady job and the steady place to live and the steady life instead of the picking up an odd job or two to get by and living the partying, Bohemian lifestyle like I did for so long. That's part of why I think 25 would be the perfect age, cause at that point chances are you've grown up more than enough to be trusted enough to vote.
25-27 also happens to be the age your brain is fully developed. Wacky hormones thanks to puberty tend to settle down, too (I felt the latter really strongly considering I have an endocrine issue that affects my hormones. I could literally feel the change in my mental state at 17, and feel yet another big change at 27.)
Fun fact: This is why I think Marijuana use shouldn't be legal until at least 25 or 27 because it's greatest effects are on the developing brain. Literally dumbs people down over time and slows/blocks aspects of development. And the effects are quite prominent with repeated use, which college-aged students & younger, especially the partiers, tend to do.
Same thing for transgender kids/people who want to get surgery or take hormones to that create permanent changes. Hormones would affect gender disphoria a lot & so you should wait until your system settles itself & susses out its own problems as much as possible before taking drastic measures.
And your prefrontal cortex should be fully developed by that age