...so there's a couple problems I want to bring up here:
One, many people are mature beyond their years, and others never grow up. The idea of quantifying maturity according to age is prejudiced.
Two, responsible citizens shouldn't be taken for granted by irresponsible citizens.
Three, responsible citizens shouldn't be vulnerable to fellow responsible citizens engaging in a bystander effect against civic responsibility.
When emergencies happen, they're only fixed because responsible citizens fix them. Likewise, some irresponsible citizens might not exercise due diligence to prevent emergencies, and other responsible citizens might say that it's not their problem.
In order to avoid these three problems, responsible government must graduate citizens through a philosophical rite of passage before allowing them access to public goods or social programs or even exposing them to the public sphere. Otherwise:
One, those citizens will force everyone around to assume the risk of irresponsibility, and
Two, those citizens will be forced to assume the risk of everyone's irresponsibility around.
Now the details of this rite of passage might be up for debate, but the point is a rite of passage has to be graduated through.
One, many people are mature beyond their years, and others never grow up. The idea of quantifying maturity according to age is prejudiced.
Two, responsible citizens shouldn't be taken for granted by irresponsible citizens.
Three, responsible citizens shouldn't be vulnerable to fellow responsible citizens engaging in a bystander effect against civic responsibility.
When emergencies happen, they're only fixed because responsible citizens fix them. Likewise, some irresponsible citizens might not exercise due diligence to prevent emergencies, and other responsible citizens might say that it's not their problem.
In order to avoid these three problems, responsible government must graduate citizens through a philosophical rite of passage before allowing them access to public goods or social programs or even exposing them to the public sphere. Otherwise:
One, those citizens will force everyone around to assume the risk of irresponsibility, and
Two, those citizens will be forced to assume the risk of everyone's irresponsibility around.
Now the details of this rite of passage might be up for debate, but the point is a rite of passage has to be graduated through.