I think I havbe found, in your post #160, our differences and why they exist.
You wrote: “So, those 14-year old homeschooled girls, being as advanced socially/mentally then “either one of those two decisions” (no matter which one that 14-year old chooses for herself) is to be respected as much as one would respect that for an 18-year old or 20 year old. That’s because that 14-year old is as capable as that 18-20 year old is (being that she is homeschooled).”
While I am a bit confused, I think you are conflating the 14 year old’s decision making as compared to a 18 year old’s decision making capabilities with an individual making decisions.
In my posts, I assumed the discussion was about an individual, not an age class. I tend to deal with individuals, since “age classes” are notoriously difficult to interview.
What I tried to address was the idea that a 13 year old girl can make well informed decisions, even wise ones.
The central issue to me is whether the individual makes wise decisions, not how many years old they are. in this case, I tend to trust the individual parents and the individual student.
The attempt to make all encompassing rules is an attempt to write a perfect law, something which Aristotle warned against. He said life was so complex that we had to rely on judgment, not judicial perfection, as Greek law could not ever be written to be equal all.
He was describing a community of only 30,000 voters, perhaps a maximum of 40,000. He therefore concluded that human judgment was unavoidable.
As judicial perfection is impossible, so is academic perfection.
I am most thankful that as an American, I have not only the jury for judgment, I have many sources of information for my education, as does the family being discussed.
In teh long run, individual decisions will win over central decisions, ecause they allow for more creativity.
And, creativity produces all sorts of good things. As proof, I note AMerica has the greatest amount of individual decision making possibilities, and has become the most productive nation.
‘Nuff said.
Enjoy Memorial Day, and remember to ask your friends to remember those who gave all that we might be free.
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Enjoy Memorial Day, and remember to ask your friends to remember those who gave all that we might be free.
Been down at the cemetery today, already, and at the one where our family is at (also some veterans, too), there are probably over a thousand flags placed all over the cemetery, and there are flowers on just about every grave around and it's packed with people. They've got a military section there, too (it's Floral Haven, between Tulsa and Broken Arrow) and it's a fairly large one.
This is the military section (the center of it ...)
There are a lot of other people, too, remembering their loved ones ... and the many sacrifices made ... :-)
I don't know if I can get the pictures that I took of the thousands of flags there uploaded or not, but if I can I can post them ... I've gotta run and go to a couple of other ones, too... so be back later...