Writer's Block: Adult Onset

[12tudor_90]

Putting legal definitions aside, there would be no age. Age is just a number just like the words in a law. It objective and too general to be practical. Adulthood is defined by the community and comes with its respective responsibilities according to the maturity of every individual person.

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[anivair]

umm ... age is not a function of law, it's a function of time, which while manmade, does exist. that's why we have seasons. SUmmer comes once a year. Like clockwork.

[12tudor_90]

how we define "age" in particular is in fact a function of social law. Age is relative and so is maturity of a human being(time also relative to a certain degree, but I mean it more figuratively) and therefore placing an age determination on the definition of an adult is absurd because it is far too general. Therefore the adult age varies so much from culture to culture. In the united states it is 18. But in the jewish religion it is only after Bar or Bat Mitzvah that all the rules apply to them, which is generally around 13. Personally I think the jewish system almost has a better approach, using a ceremony to justify adulthood rather than age.

[12tudor_90]

Note: what I mean by social law is as defined by society. In some countries, 40 is old like near death old, in the US this is mearly middleaged

[12tudor_90]

merely