[cuban leaf]

“I am 19 years old, and I feel as though I have ruined my life.”

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The human brain is not fully developed until age 25. The idea of allowing this to happen to those younger than that is really a bad policy. We all have to live with bad decisions of our selves and others. Some end up missing a leg because of going to war. This guy will live with this the rest of his life. It will make a difference.

[MrEdd]

The human brain reaches adulthood about age sixteen or seventeen.

But the west has grown stupid.
Really really stupid.

All over the planet civilizations have acknowledged as they advanced that adulthood is not the pinnacle of development before decline sets in.

Call it elder, or whatever you like. Humans continue to gain in intellect and capacity for sound judgment for a while afterwards.

There people below twenty five are not children. They can be fully adults. Pretending they are not is stupid.

Really really stupid.
The kind of stupid which fully deserves to be mocked.

Audie Murphy certainly would have obliged. I’m no Audie Murphy but I will mock the stupidity which denies thousands of years af aggregate accumulation of human knowledge to deny that development continues after adulthood is reached.

[Cobra64]

No... a soldier losing a leg in combat is totally different from some stupid asshole who made a self-conscious decision to castrate himself.