I didn't mean to be persnickety. I was just trying to understand.
Tim Send a noteboard - 15/03/2010 08:39:20 PM
And I'm not saying the system I live in is perfect either...
By way of comparison, the Scottish system is very practical but makes no logical sense at all. The formal age of majority is 18, but at 16 you have legal capacity to "enter into any transaction" with stated exceptions like buying alcohol. All the other age limits which are set at 18 are specifically enacted in law, rather than being assumed. So the official age of majority actually has no legal significance, while a different age has lots of significance. Why they didn't just make 16 the age of legal majority I have no idea.
However, I do like our approach to medical consent. Here, specific ages in years are irrelevant – under-16s can consent to medical treatment when the doctor/nurse/dentist/whatever thinks you're old enough to understand what's going on. This will obviously depend on the nature of the treatment as well as on the child – a five-year-old can probably consent on his own behalf to having a grazed knee patched up, but not to chemotherapy.
By way of comparison, the Scottish system is very practical but makes no logical sense at all. The formal age of majority is 18, but at 16 you have legal capacity to "enter into any transaction" with stated exceptions like buying alcohol. All the other age limits which are set at 18 are specifically enacted in law, rather than being assumed. So the official age of majority actually has no legal significance, while a different age has lots of significance. Why they didn't just make 16 the age of legal majority I have no idea.
However, I do like our approach to medical consent. Here, specific ages in years are irrelevant – under-16s can consent to medical treatment when the doctor/nurse/dentist/whatever thinks you're old enough to understand what's going on. This will obviously depend on the nature of the treatment as well as on the child – a five-year-old can probably consent on his own behalf to having a grazed knee patched up, but not to chemotherapy.
Vigilantibus non dormientibus jura subveniunt.
—Nous disons en allemand : le guerre, le mort, le lune, alors que 'soleil' et 'amour' sont du sexe féminin : la soleil, la amour. La vie est neutre.
—La vie ? Neutre ? C'est très joli, et surtout très logique.
—Nous disons en allemand : le guerre, le mort, le lune, alors que 'soleil' et 'amour' sont du sexe féminin : la soleil, la amour. La vie est neutre.
—La vie ? Neutre ? C'est très joli, et surtout très logique.
New Orleans hotelier offers to host prom cancelled in Mississippi
- 14/03/2010 01:29:40 AM
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Sort of seems opportunistic really
- 14/03/2010 02:00:54 AM
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Given the nature of the people involved, I highly doubt they're willing to go to NOLA. 
- 14/03/2010 03:31:33 AM
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- 14/03/2010 03:31:33 AM
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Re: Given the nature of the people involved, I highly doubt they're willing to go to NOLA.
- 14/03/2010 04:13:18 AM
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- 14/03/2010 04:13:18 AM
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Aren't high-school graduands generally 18?
- 14/03/2010 10:34:20 AM
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Prom is in early April - so statistically, only about 25% of students will have turned 18...
- 14/03/2010 03:40:26 PM
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That's probably off by a good deal, closer to 50%
- 14/03/2010 04:48:07 PM
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Ah, yes, that would make a difference.
- 14/03/2010 04:56:19 PM
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School years by birth year? That's far too logical and orderly for an English-speaking country!
- 14/03/2010 11:10:27 PM
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It's pretty arbitrary, but you have to consider the ramifications at the college level
- 15/03/2010 12:05:28 AM
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What are the "noticeable difficulties" with having 17-year-olds on campus?
- 15/03/2010 08:19:24 AM
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Mostly, I can only think of problems relating to sex.
- 15/03/2010 12:38:06 PM
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What on earth have students' sex lives got to do with the college?
- 15/03/2010 12:52:03 PM
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I was just suggesting it as a possible reason, there's no need to get persnickity.
- 15/03/2010 05:45:43 PM
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I didn't mean to be persnickety. I was just trying to understand.
- 15/03/2010 08:39:20 PM
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Well, they aren't legal adults...
- 15/03/2010 01:05:33 PM
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Because it means you can't pass your test until long after you've started your "independent" life.
- 15/03/2010 08:44:33 PM
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Depends on the country, I would imagine.
- 15/03/2010 08:53:40 PM
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Ah, good to know. Not quite as nuts as I thought then, at least in Belgium 
. *NM*
- 15/03/2010 10:42:51 PM
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- 15/03/2010 10:42:51 PM
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All countries I'm aware of have "driving age" mean the age you can take the test
- 15/03/2010 10:24:16 PM
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Huh, maybe I was wrongly assuming everywhere was like here.
- 15/03/2010 10:33:50 PM
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in the states
- 15/03/2010 10:44:11 PM
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Here they recently changed the system too, so I'm not sure on the details, but...
- 15/03/2010 10:55:13 PM
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