How old is old enough?

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There's been a discussion in Chit Chat about 2 teens who were charged for possessing "risque" pictures of the other.

http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-6157...-0-5&subj=news

And there's been a lot going on in there about how teenagers don't have good judgement and that they should be persecuted to teach them to not be so stupid in the future, and then there's those who believe that things kept between the privacy of the two who the pictures were taken of should be free to do as they wish.

There was a joke that Dave Chapelle did, where he was talking about this though, and the double standards that we old on teenagers. He was talking about how R. Kelly shouldn't have been charged for peeing on a 15 year old girl, because he believes that at 15 you should be able to know if you want to be peed on or not. Then he went on to talk about a 15 year old who was sentenced to life in prison because he accidentally killed his neighbor in a backyard wrestling thing. Long story short, he thinks that if you can put a 15 year old in prison for life for accidentally killing his neighbor, then you should respect the girl's right to get peed on, since you apparently believe 15 year olds are mature enough to make their own decisions.

That laid the foundation for the argument, if there's anything in there that should be reworded, ask and I'll try to explain it differently.

So the question is, how old is old enough to make your own decisions and have to face the consequences that the law hands out to one who we now consider an adult?

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My opinion-

I think that there are plenty of teenagers who can't make good judgement, but I also believe that there's PLENTY of adults who can't make good judgement either. I think there's a point in time where we know what the law is, and where we know what we want, and I think that 15 or 16ish is when we should be able to make our own decisions with what we want to do with our body, as in if you want some rapper to pee on you, the rapper shouldn't be put through trial for it. But, in that, I also believe that they should be charged the same as an adult in certain instances, as if they end up killing someone. If you're 15 or 16, you shouldn't be able to do what you want overall, but you should stop babying them. If they want to have sex, you're not gonna be able to stop them. So, I think once you come to...I'll say 16, you oughta be charged as an adult for the decisions you make, but also, all laws that applied to minors (other than drinking and smoking) should not apply anymore.

Now this is the critical thinking thread, so if anyone disagrees I'd like to hear it and I'm more than open to changing my mind about any of it. (Sorry bout the length...if you read this far)