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To: HostileTerritory
He's below the age of consent and can not be legally judged to be of the same sound mind as an adult committing the same crime. Put him in jail for as long as we need to, but he's not an adult any more than a 17 year old girl seeking to abort her baby is an adult.

So, during the night before her 18th birthday, she's given the sound mind of an adult and can then go seek to abort her baby? I'm missing something from your post.

178 posted on 03/01/2005 7:53:19 AM PST by houeto ("Mr. President , close our borders now!")
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To: houeto

That's the way the law works, yes. It's because they have to apply to 300 million people with 300 million sets of life experiences, so they find an arbitrary line and stick to it on principle. What's the alternative, having judges decide when someone is old enough to vote as an individual?


185 posted on 03/01/2005 7:54:45 AM PST by HostileTerritory
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