Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/15/85; site ratex.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!ratex!mck From: mck@ratex.UUCP (Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Age of Majority -- Answer for Sykora Message-ID: <1166@ratex.UUCP> Date: Sat, 11-May-85 09:30:55 EDT Article-I.D.: ratex.1166 Posted: Sat May 11 09:30:55 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 12-May-85 06:00:26 EDT Organization: Squids R Us Lines: 11 Keywords: interpol Michael Sykora asks: >How did you arrive arrive at 18 for the cutoff age? I take it that the responsibilites of children are different than those of adults. I realize that simply drawing a line at the 18th birthday is far less than ideal, but I would rather err in NOT denouncing the guilty than in denouncing the innocent. TNX, DKMcK