I’m not asking this from a biology lens, I get that aspect, but more from the sociology/anthropology lens. My question is which culture started using 18 as this hard cutoff, when, and under what reasoning.
In: Other
It was 21, but during Vietnam an unprecedented number of teenagers were dying. People were quite upset so the age of the draft didnt
Change, but the right to vote did. So in 1971 the voting age was lowered, if you got tapped to die for your country, you should at least have a voice in government. Then Nixon repealed the draft.
We almost had socialized medicine under Nixon.
Don’t get me wrong, he was an asshole.
But he did a few important things.
Latest Answers