Extending Infancy

This was a fun read. I found his, shall we say, somewhat overly enthusiastic description of the Marines a bit off-putting, but I enjoyed the thrust of his arguments (had to). It's hardly a new concept, that we're accepting of people as adults as long as it serves our purpose, but they suddenly become wee small children when our purposes change. I fondly remember when the "18 children a day die from gunshots" was so popular. Children, that is, 19 and under. Huh. I thought 18 was the age of legal adulthood? When someone called one of the representatives of Hand Control Inc (now the Brady Center) on this, she said, "Well, they're somebody's children." But really, this is just going back to the victimization of everybody. Oh wait, everybody except heterosexual, anglo-saxon males. Everybody else is a victim. Those guys are evil.