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Nothing significant changes in our brains in our 20s.

All this talk of "fully developed at 25" is ridiculous bullshit. Even if it were true, it wouldn't mean that people below that age are mentally incompetent.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You did not read that.

I'm not wasting any more time with this

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Apparently you didn't read what I wrote.

All throughout human history teens have been getting married, starting families, running businesses, hunting, fishing, babysitting, and doing just fine. Sometime in the last 20 years, however, somebody decided that their brains are bad, so we have to treat them like they are children. Neurology has produced a giant pile of fishy results that don't prove anything at all. You can join the British Army at 16 years of age. You can join the US Army at 17. We all know that teen brains work just fine, but when we want an excuse for being bigots and treating them like dirt, suddenly we've got "proof" that their brains are retarded. It's a giant lie.