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Adult?

Isn't biology destiny, to some extent? Isn't morality inescapably intertwined with this destiny?

How to define "adult"? We can do so biologically- where "sterile" is an aberration from normal biological development- and we can do so through societal construct.

I suppose the societal way is by law, to decree when one is adolescent (and thus justifiably subject to significantly intrusive parenting, including the nanny state schools) and then the transformative moment when one becomes an adult.

I don't want to dismiss the possiblitity out-of-hand, but I am wondering about the possible advantage that Michael Bacon speculates exists, to the extension of the intrusion of authority into adolescent lives.

by a reader on Sun, 02/05/2006 - 15:05

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