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Originally Posted by Flubflow
I also think that 16 is far too young to get a driving licence in the USA.
The point is that there are many landmarks in going from adolecence to adulthood. You think that an 18/19 year old is adult and mature enough to go fight in a war whereas I don't. Signing up is not a problem but I think they need a good 5 years training at home before they are put in a war zone to make mistakes. At 18/19 I don't think they can possibly have had enough training and are not only a risk to themselves but also to their older fellow soldiers in the field.
It is a perfectly valid point of view and if you still don't get it then I doubt that I can help you anymore.
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It's a point of view not shared with the majority, the military, or those people signing up.
If the law states that someone is an adult at 18, then they are not a child.
And with regards to the issue raised about it in the debate, we are not sending our children to be sacrificed, no children are being sent, and the adults that are going are volunteering to go by being members of the armed forces.