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We already have age limits at the lower end. Why are people so against age limits at the upper end?

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[–] Banzai51@midwest.social 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Everyone is for age limits until they would be affected.

[–] TommySalami@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope I have the wherewithal to maintain my convictions at that age. Perhaps that's naivete, but I never became conservative, either.

[–] Xariphon@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm still ardently pro-youth and against exclusion even at almost 40; I would like to believe I'll still be for age caps when I'm old. Like actual old. I know I'm already fuckin' old. You know what I mean.

[–] sin_free_for_00_days@lemmy.one 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've got over a decade on you, and if anything I'm further left and more pro age-limits than I've ever been in my life.

[–] howler@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Ditto. I recognize my cognitive slide from even 10 years ago... And Mitch has decades on me... I also realize that the older my kids have gotten, the more out of touch I've become.... These fossils dinner gaf though... Having strokes on live tv won't even stop them.