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This is a fantastic article. As an aside, I've always been fascinated to see the intersection between people who scream loudly about how children should not be charged as adults when they commit major felonies (the reasoning being their brains are not sufficiently developed to understand what they've done) and the people who scream loudly about allowing ALL children to transition and take puberty blockers. So their brains aren't mature enough to know that killing someone is wrong but they are mature enough to make decisions about treatment that could cause lifelong issues?

Identity-based politics are dangerous. Labeling people removes their individuality and allows for all kinds of stereotyping and marginalization. And lest we forget, the National Socialist party had all kinds of colored badges to identify people based on arbitrary categories like race, sexual orientation, and so on. We should all be very wary of where this path can lead.

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To be fair, there is a difference between "cold cognition" and "hot cognition", with the former ability maturing significantly earlier than the latter. So there is some nuance about why some age limits should be higher than others, even if our society often gets it wrong or backwards. But otherwise, what you say makes sense.

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