Birdjaguar said:
As I said, ultimately, it is all about self discipline and knowing when to stop useless posting, but as a rule younger people tend to be less disciplined than older people. And yes there certainly could be exceptions to that rule; you might even be one.
But just in case you didn't know, the brain doesn't complete its development until a person is in their mid twenties and the last piece to fall into place is the part that handles "judgment".
Actually, just in case you didn't know, the studies that you refer to ACTUALLY state that the brain in Adolescence uses other parts of the mind for desicions that those developed beyond the Adolescent brain make in their front lobes. These lobes theoretically control what we term "rational thinking" and the sort, while the "teenaged" brain tends to make instinctive descisions. Its not a lack of judgement, its a different way of processing factors and making a descion. And when America has a President who makes descions "with his gut", why is it so wrong for Teens to do that same?
And if you want to judge things based solely ON Nueral development, when you are 6-8 months old, you're brain functions the best in terms of synapses, and when you are aroudn 25-30, your brain begins to deteriorate to the point where at around 50-60, your neural "skills" so to speak, are at the level of a late teen again
But the truth is those studies are crap. They are conducted in an irrelevant, and unscientific way. Actually testing(this stuff from Jean Piaget) shows that "young people develop adult levels of reason and judgment at around 14-15, and many get there at 11 or 12" and "if someone doesnt achieve formal operational thinking by age 15 or so, they probably never will. Many adults never do. "
By Age 11, most people have acheived conventional and moral reasoning at the level of an Adult, according to studies put forth by American Psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg.
Age-Discrimination based on this junk science is shockingly similar to a modern day version of
Phrenology and
Craniometry, which if you don't feel like reading the articles, was used by White Males to prove they were superior to Woman and All other Races.
And regardless of ALL OF THAT, the main problem with those studies is that they operate under the assumption that Middle-Age is the Ideal State for Humanity and Development.
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Sorry if I react strongly to stuff like that, but when i'm not at school or here i'm living my double-life as a high-ranking member of the National Youth Rights Association. Its the first thing in my Sig.
So Age-Restriction= Bad
And I think i NESer mod would be cool. Just like how Cheiftess was a Demo-Game player and a mod at the same time. Good Times, Good Times.
