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“…Teenagers are largely not responsible and don’t think things through…”

For 99.99 percent of human history, persons over the age of ~14 were treated as adults by the rest of Society, and for the most part, they acted like adults.

The idea that they are not capable of being responsible is a fallacy of modern Western European culture that has only arisen during the last hundred years or so. And it is a self-fulfilling prophecy: If you treat people like irresponsible idiots, they’re going to act like irresponsible idiots; if we treated them like adults, they’d act like adults.