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Originally posted by jagger88788
Do y'all forget what it's like to be 12? You're in middle school at that point and I knew exactly what terrorism, murder, and bombs were at that age so can we stop acting like he's a toddler when he's about to be a teenager?
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When you're 12 you know what parental figures have taught you. When I was 12 I thought gays were sick, south americans were rapists and black people terrorists because that's what my parents, uncles and grand parents had taught me. At that age adults still have a huge influence in your way of thinking. It wasn't untill I was 15 that I realised that my family is racist, xenophobic and homophobic trash, because it was when I started thinking on my own. If this kid has been educated all his short life on those awful values that's what he will do. It will not be until he is older that he will truly realise the weight of his actions and thoughts.
There's a reason why you aren't able to vote when you're 12. It's because you aren't mature enough to think on your own, and you will do what adults around you tell you to. I know it isn't the same thing, but it's too extreme to throw away the life of a kid because of the trashy authority figures that have raised him and brain washed him.