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To: MeDroogies who wrote (521)	7/20/1998 12:24:00 PM
From: Liatris Spicata	Read Replies (2) of 13060

MeDroogies- <<I would be hard pressed to understand why we would allow a 7 year old to request adult status. They simply don't have the cognitive ability to understand the consequences of their actions.>> Well I think Heinlein was proposing the idea for adolescents. If a judge granted legal adult status to a seven year old, then ipso facto he/she should not be on the bench, IMO. Judges are paid to exercise discretion. Currently the law has a "one-size-fits-all" approach to the assumption of legal majority. As I've mentioned, I would be comfortable raising the age of legal majority to 21, and having that be a significant milestone in an individual's life (the nanny state tends to minimize the import of legal majority, except insofar as criminal prosecution is concerned). But it would strike me as unfair and wrong to deny a competent 18 year old the ability to sign a legally binding contract simply because others of his or her age may be incompetent or self-destructive. Bear in mind that in days of yore before the federal government decided it should be everyone's "parent" (I'm told a few months ago Sleazebag Bill indicated the feds should act as parents to the citizens of this republic!) people as young as 14 came to this county alone and had to make their own way. Some of them achieved positions of distinction in this country. Larry P.S. There was a Russian Jew with the improbable name of Charles E. Smith (an Ellis Island special, I suspect- I mean, after all, those Russian names really are a mouthful for any proper Anglo!) who came to this county alone at 14 around the time of the Russian Revolution and reportedly was on his own from that time. He founded a successful construction company around Washington, D.C., became a philanthropist of note and respected man in the community.

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