Why did we set 18 as the age of majority?

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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.

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This was *just* discussed on an episode of the Freakonomics spinoff podcast “No Stupid Questions.” Here you go:

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/when-do-you-become-an-adult/

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