> Have you ever met a teenager? They're fucking idiotic.
I've met plenty of idiotic adults, and I've met plenty of non-idiotic teenagers.
If "idiocy" is the appropriate criterion for determining how people should be disparately treated by the law, then let's develop a precise definition of "idiotic", so we can directly determine whether someone is an idiot or not, and stop using other, inconsistently correlated variables a proxy.
I've met plenty of idiotic adults, and I've met plenty of non-idiotic teenagers.
If "idiocy" is the appropriate criterion for determining how people should be disparately treated by the law, then let's develop a precise definition of "idiotic", so we can directly determine whether someone is an idiot or not, and stop using other, inconsistently correlated variables a proxy.