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If 16 years old in NZ are considered mature enough to vote does that mean they will be treated as adults in our courts/judicial system. I am thinking of Jury duty and when being sentenced where age cannot be used as an excuse.
I cannot see how 16 years is regarded as a suitable age to vote. Women fought hard to get the vote which gave them a say in how things were done in the adult word they lived in. At 16 most countries still regard that age as becoming an adult, not fully fledged so to speak. Also not experienced in life. After attending secondary and tertiary education there is a tendency to think that one knows everything, but life experience is lacking and only more time in the community provides that.
Perhaps we should be like the Jewish and having a ceremony in the early teenage years and be given certain positions in society to understand what is involved, attending Council meetings, putting forward ideas for projects that enhance the economic life of the community and not just sport and recreation. This would follow through from a good childhood experience. Below that age they are treated as children which the state helps parents care for, socialise and guide, being good role models themselves and therefore good citizens raising good citizens.
At present younger people will likely fall into two baskets – one following the hegemony of their parents and class, or two doing the opposite of parents and authority, with a possibility of veering off on some impossible and implausible idea that seems good at the moment. This might seem to be totally different than the status quo, fresh and new, but in fact it comes back to the first basket. It’s been done before by Labour in 1984.
Unfortunately that idea has been replaced in the upper echelons of the country and all we get is food-hungry rats in positions of authority, or playactors starting trends and full of pretence like Marie Antoinette’s court dressing up as milkmaids for an afternoon of fun. In the film Camelot a song stresses the gap of class.
‘What do simple folk do’ These two stars lipsynch their way with as much veracity as our top layer of icing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFZQr3JrpaI
A Bar or Bat Mitzvah is a coming of age ceremony for Jewish boys and girls when they reach the age of 12 or 13. This ceremony marks the time when a boy or girl becomes a Jewish adult. This means that they are now responsible for their own actions and can decide for themselves how they would like to practice Judaism.
Life Cycle: Coming of Age – The Jewish Museum London
https://jewishmuseum.org.uk › Assets
This is hot.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/468301/oranga-tamariki-hid-sexual-violence-project-report-ministers-officials
https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-detail/story/2018843959/the-fight-against-mycoplasma-bovis
Questions = do we ever know what we are doing? Is it the great leap forward that was laughed about when China planned one, but ours is funnier? Is it 5 steps forward which gradually get chipped away with a net result of a half step advance which has cost so much more than doing nothing. Buy Zespri is doing well with returns – do we Kiwis still own it or the majority of it?