driving age 14:
By
simeonenoch
on November 11, 2009
These are some of the reason why kids should drive at an earlier age. Say it a national emergency they would have to evacuate the school were would the kid go if he/she had no car. Or what if someone elderly in your family fell and broke their leg or something. Then the kid could go and take them to the hospital.
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driving age 36
more mature, fewer 'racing' hormones ...
can i drive a battlestar at 14?
This is not a claim.
This claim is gloriously self-defeating. The claimant has trouble with declarative sentences, but nonetheless believes he should be allowed access to a ton of hurtling metal. Genius.
D'A
Um, yeah. How do I say this?
... or say if I make up some specialized circumstances and try to extrapolate that somehow privileges for a 14-year-old become self-evident rights.
No. Look: pitch whatever subjunctives you want; Just acknowledge that this tactic pretty much fails, in general, for making a valid argument anywhere. You need to convince people of a true justification. What you have here is tantamount to Single white soundbite seeks supporters who really function at the think-free stimulus-response level. And frankly, that you think it passes for justification supports D'A's point about the risks and responsibilities of steering varions tons of metals around.
I should probably role-model an argument for the chap:
The typical 14-year-old is chemically (read, hormonally) unfit to consistently safely operate heavy machinery. This is not unlike the warnings found on the instructions for strong medications (other chemicals) or even alcohol. Because the operation of vehicles involves as a high priority the safety of others, any person likely to be so intoxicated, even for short periods of time, should not be permitted to jeopardize the well-being of others in ways that could reasonably result in their death or disfigurement. As such, a graduated licensing program ought to be used, perhaps beginning with formal driver's education circa age 14, but not resulting in actual public road travel until a statistically (re: hormones) safer age.