I must point out, redcocoa, that the attitude that adolescents are inherently stupid and prone to making bad decisions has been challenged by good scientific evidence, including the recent groundbreaking work conducted by Dr. Robert Epstein and written about in his article "The Myth of the Teen Brain" that appeared in an issue of the highly respected Scientific American Mind (this can be purchased online), followed by the large extrapolations of that research which appeared in his 2007 book The Case Against Adolescence and its 2010 update, Teen 2.0 ("can't see past whats going on right this second," indeed!). And before you say, "Well, this Epstein guy must not be a parent himself," please note that he is indeed a parent who has raised four children, and many other people in the burgeoning youth liberation movement are likewise parents, including people I know personally (and please also note that the vast majority of people in the youth liberation movement are NOT MAAs). There is very good scientific evidence that the brains of younger people are not inherently "flawed" in a way that gives them an inherent proclivity towards making bad decisions; this is just a more modern version of the once popular but now refuted claims that it was their excessive degree of "hormones" that made them prone to bad decisions.

Also, please consider: if adults were so inherently competent, enlightened, and "mature" (a subjective term if there ever was one) in comparison to people under the Magic Age, then we wouldn't see the huge amount of racism, sexism, business mismanagement, political incompetency, and resistance to needed change and repetition of errors in running the country--not to mention older people frequently voting against their own interests in contrast to younger people, who far more often are known to vote for change--that we presently have to deal with, and the world we live in today would be a far better place than it is. Remember which age group runs the institutions of the world today, and remember which age groups' input is left out of all management decisions entirely, before you make ageist comments of this nature.