She's only 16! Years my left foot!
Why do individual acts have to have value to other people?
Why allow a child to do something so dangerous? Just because she WANTS to? That's ridiculous. She's just a KID. Her age is what makes this outrageous. If an adult wants to do something like this, great. But a child? YOU pointed out that 16 year olds driving is dangerous. So send one out on the ocean? ALONE? Yeah. There's sense.
“She’s only 16! Years my left foot!”
She’s been sailing since she was 3. That’s 13 years of preparation.
“Why allow a child to do something so dangerous?”
Because it was there.
“She’s just a KID.”
She’s not an infant and nor is she 5. She’s 16. Big difference.
“Her age is what makes this outrageous. If an adult wants to do something like this, great. But a child? YOU pointed out that 16 year olds driving is dangerous.”
I pointed out that 16 year olds quite successfully learn to drive, and are expected to do so as a rite of adulthood.
Denying a young person from undertaking their own rite is contrary to what we as a society should believe. Imagine if we had challenging rites for adolescents so that they could be men afterwards? Perhaps many of the immature behaviours will pass away.
So send one out on the ocean? ALONE? Yeah. There’s sense.