Re: Pro-BL political campaigns this year

It's quite good. I especially like how you always respectfully say teenage MEN rather than teenage boys (as a typical condescending matriarchalist would instead put it). You made some good points about education. I think more emphasis could be put on parental prerogative. You could also emphasis that compulsory education should be abolished entirely and that the whole issue should instead be one for individual families, rather than a government, to decide for themselves. I used to know a boy at primary school who's father was a grounds keeper and tractor driver and from the time of about 6 the boy was always saying how he so much wanted to not be at school at all and instead be out there doing what his dad was. He was not in any way academic material and because he was forced to stay in a stuffy classroom all day being bored to tears he was often disruptive and inhibitive of other students who actually WANTED to be there. He was utterly adamant that once he could leave school that was what he was going to do. He also told the teacher that his father was actually in full support of him and would have him work immediately if the schooling of his son wasn't compulsory. The teacher insisted to the boy "Oh, you will definitely change you mind when you get older. For now and at LEAST the next 8 years ahead you WILL stay at school, and that's all there is to it!" When I went to high school I lost contact with him as he went to a different school to me. A few years after I left school I was driving past a local sports ground and (not to my surprise) there was this boy grown into man driving a tractor JUST as he promised he would do from the time he was 6. As far as individual responsibility goes, apparently many people seem to think that their offspring aren't as intelligent as mine, as I personally expect my own offspring to be able to be responsible for their actions and to be fully capable of consenting much younger than 7, and I don't at all think of that as an unreasonable expectation. Certainly they are capable of consent from the time they can speak, and if they have enough intelligence to be capable of planning a crime then they ALSO have enough intelligence to realize there would be consequences in the event they were caught! In regards to your reference to studies claiming that information processing speed takes until the grand age of 18 or 19 and that short term memory is strongest by the ripe old age of 25, to me this just seems extremely late and also in complete contrast to one alternative position that says the average person is fully cognitive and fully able to reason by age 7 and that adult brain size and potential is achieved by about 11 1/2. And are you aware of the quote by Aristotle: "Give me the child until he is seven and I'll give you the man"? Wherever one encounters a popular belief that no one knows what they are doing until 18, or much worse still, 25, is evidence of a nation, not of people, but of zombies and cretins.