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Originally Posted by Mick

No, you are arrogant for suggesting older people are cleverer than younger people.

Where did I say *all* over 70’s have problems?

Another question, why do you post in Blue all the time when everyone else doesn’t?

Last question, which you have conveniently copped out of from answering, does the DVLA have it wrong on the age expiration of driving licenses for people who reach the age of 70?

I'll remind you of what I said, which is NOT that older people are more intelligent.

The broad brush approach is unreasonable [in respect of handles such as Millennials]. As others have said, 70 isn't a natural barrier to competence and intelligence. Wisdom also comes with age for those not as stupid as Biden.

Why are you bothered as to why I post in blue? Are you going to introduce a rule that forbids it? To answer your petty question, I do it because it's distinctive. It doesn't seem to have bothered anybody.

On your last question, it was not a point relevant to the ability of a 70+ person to be intelligent or govern a country. And as I don't dodge answering questions: I've no problem with the 70s DDVLA rules because there are specific age-related eyesight related conditions that make it necessary to mitigate accident risk.




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Originally Posted by nomadking

If you don't have a clearly defined cut-off, you get the current situation of the question is there, but can never be answered. Even if the question was answered, there would still be an endless round of arguments both ways of whether the answer was correct.

Having simply hard-defined boundaries avoids an endless round of appeals etc, about any decision of any sort.
People don't have a problem with minimum age cut-offs.

The public can decide the cut-off at the polls if they consider it more important than the other pull factors. To constitutionally set a cut-off point, certainly as low as Mick wants it to be, would lead to all sorts of nastiness, like changes to employment law, changes to insurance premiums etc.