Age Discrimination

[Will37]

Why is it considered appropriate to question someone's age in a discussion?  This will likely get me banned to even ask it, but I wonder why it's perfectly OK to use a minor's age as your argument instead of responding to their argument intelligently?  And why is it out of line if you call someone out for using age discrimination as their argument?

To me, using someone's age means you have no intelligent rebuttal for their argument so you are basically just saying "you are too young to have an intelligent opinion."  I think that discounting someone's argument due to their age is immature and bigoted.  If you can't argue without making personal attacks you aren't qualified to be part of the discussion.  Questioning people's ages is a personal attack when it really isn't relevant to the conversation.  If we are talking about what's hot with teens now or how to deal with the troubles of aging, age isn't irrelevant but for just about anything else, it is.

But for some reason it's OK to basically end a discussion with, "you're young and thus immature and ignorant so I win!" and anyone who disagrees will be warned.

I can understand why a minor might be warned for participating in discussions it might be illegal for him or her to participate in but to just support age discrimination instead seems wrong, doesn't it?  Why not just ban minors from threads it's illegal for them (and us if they are there) to exercise free speech in instead of going on about the legal repercussions of hosting discussions illegal for minors to participate in?    

In case you were wondering, I'm forty-one.

You'll understand when you're older.

[Tank]

Why is it considered appropriate to question someone's age in a discussion?  This will likely get me banned to even ask it, but I wonder why it's perfectly OK to use a minor's age as your argument instead of responding to their argument intelligently?  And why is it out of line if you call someone out for using age discrimination as their argument?

To me, using someone's age means you have no intelligent rebuttal for their argument so you are basically just saying "you are too young to have an intelligent opinion."  I think that discounting someone's argument due to their age is immature and bigoted.  If you can't argue without making personal attacks you aren't qualified to be part of the discussion.  Questioning people's ages is a personal attack when it really isn't relevant to the conversation.  If we are talking about what's hot with teens now or how to deal with the troubles of aging, age isn't irrelevant but for just about anything else, it is.

But for some reason it's OK to basically end a discussion with, "you're young and thus immature and ignorant so I win!" and anyone who disagrees will be warned.

I can understand why a minor might be warned for participating in discussions it might be illegal for him or her to participate in but to just support age discrimination instead seems wrong, doesn't it?  Why not just ban minors from threads it's illegal for them (and us if they are there) to exercise free speech in instead of going on about the legal repercussions of hosting discussions illegal for minors to participate in?    

In case you were wondering, I'm forty-one.

You'll understand when you're older.

As a matter of interest how old are you?

[Will37]

Why is it considered appropriate to question someone's age in a discussion?  This will likely get me banned to even ask it, but I wonder why it's perfectly OK to use a minor's age as your argument instead of responding to their argument intelligently?  And why is it out of line if you call someone out for using age discrimination as their argument?

To me, using someone's age means you have no intelligent rebuttal for their argument so you are basically just saying "you are too young to have an intelligent opinion."  I think that discounting someone's argument due to their age is immature and bigoted.  If you can't argue without making personal attacks you aren't qualified to be part of the discussion.  Questioning people's ages is a personal attack when it really isn't relevant to the conversation.  If we are talking about what's hot with teens now or how to deal with the troubles of aging, age isn't irrelevant but for just about anything else, it is.

But for some reason it's OK to basically end a discussion with, "you're young and thus immature and ignorant so I win!" and anyone who disagrees will be warned.

I can understand why a minor might be warned for participating in discussions it might be illegal for him or her to participate in but to just support age discrimination instead seems wrong, doesn't it?  Why not just ban minors from threads it's illegal for them (and us if they are there) to exercise free speech in instead of going on about the legal repercussions of hosting discussions illegal for minors to participate in?    

In case you were wondering, I'm forty-one.

You'll understand when you're older.

As a matter of interest how old are you?

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