I find laws which restrict one’s actions based upon their physical age to be absurd. First, I don’t believe it’s a government’s place to dictate at what point in a citizen’s life they are permitted to engage in certain activities. Second, assigning an arbitrary age limit to regulated activity is senseless… physical age is hardly a reliable metric; could there be a more nonobjective approach to whether one is mature enough to engage in regulated activity?
“I’m sorry, I cannot sell you alcohol, for the Earth has orbited the sun only about nineteen times since the day of your birth.”
“The Earth has completed just over eighteen revolutions during your existence, but less than sixteen since the person you had a sexual encounter with was born. Therefore you are guilty of statutory rape.”
“Only when one has been on this planet long enough to witness thirty-five revolutions around the great star in the sky can they be deemed fit to become President of the United States.”
Granted, such phrases may not be spoken or thought, but the same line of reasoning applies to age limit laws. That is, the line of reasoning becoming of a believer in astrology, not a lawmaker.
Any person who enforces such laws is without a doubt of an irrational mind and has no place within a justice system, where it is absolutely imperative objectivity and logic prevail.
