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A comment on Japan plans to lower age of adulthood to 18 (2018). Parent comment

Re:Japan plans to lower age of adulthood to 18 (2018) by pygy_ on Thursday March 21, 2019 @09:18AM (#19451934)
1) The younger you start consuming addictive substances, the more likely you are to become addicted.

2) Analysis and impulse control are not handled by the same parts of the brain, and those mature at a different pace.

3) Given how social ties are stratified in kids due to the education system, providing a buffer of a couple of years protects high school kids from expostion to addictive substances.

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Re:Japan plans to lower age of adulthood to 18 (2018) by Mirioron on Thursday March 21, 2019 @10:35AM (#19452786)
>3) Given how social ties are stratified in kids due to the education system, providing a buffer of a couple of years protects high school kids from expostion to addictive substances.

Is this actually useful though? In some European countries, like Finland, high school kids end up over the age of 18 and are thus legally allowed to drink.

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