Boulder prohibits gatherings of any size for 18-22 year olds
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#2Replace "18-22 year olds" with "blacks" or "Muslims"
Is it still ethical? Legal? Effective?
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#3Those are the least likely people to actually listen to this. Lets see how this goes.
Re: Boulder prohibits gatherings of any size for 18-22 year olds
#4Replace "18-22 year olds" with "blacks" or "Muslims" Is it still ethical? Legal? Effective?
Fair point, funny how capriciously we treat the rights and welfare of the young these days.
Try cutting the social security COLA by 1%? Get a riot.
Destroy the economic livelihoods of a generation of new entrants to the economy? No problemo, my stocks and real estate portfolio is doing great!
Re: Boulder prohibits gatherings of any size for 18-22 year olds
#5Replace "18-22 year olds" with "blacks" or "Muslims" Is it still ethical? Legal? Effective?
Why though?
> Is it still ethical?
No, it wouldn't be. All young people, regardless of race, deserve equal protection from their own stupidity.
> Legal?
No, it wouldn't be.
> Effective?
For those lucky young people, it would be. But that screws all the young people of other races/religions.
Re: Boulder prohibits gatherings of any size for 18-22 year olds
#6One area of Indonesia put mask violators on grave-digging as punishment.[1]
[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/09/21/fac...
Re: Boulder prohibits gatherings of any size for 18-22 year olds
#7Hold enough to vote and go to war, but not gather. Doesn't make much sense.
Re: Boulder prohibits gatherings of any size for 18-22 year olds
#8Replace "18-22 year olds" with "blacks" or "Muslims" Is it still ethical? Legal? Effective?
It's interesting how we can use age (selectively) as a discriminator, but within a certain range and in certain contexts, it's seen as "bad" to discriminate.
Most wouldn't say the concept of a retirement age is discriminatory, nor the concept of age of consent or minimum age to purchase alcohol, or pricing insurance rates differently based on age.
Somehow this application of age discrimination seems to cross the line for many people, though. I'm genuinely curious as to why.
Re: Boulder prohibits gatherings of any size for 18-22 year olds
#9Replace "18-22 year olds" with "blacks" or "Muslims" Is it still ethical? Legal? Effective?
Fair point, funny how capriciously we treat the rights and welfare of the young these days. Try cutting the social security COLA by 1%? Get a riot. Destroy the economic livelihoods of a generation of new entrants to the economy? No problemo, my stocks and real estate portfolio is doing great!
This suggests younger cohorts need robust efforts to protect their rights when continued curtailment is attempted by those who aren’t offering up sufficient compensation and recourse for the impacted.
Can’t expect a generation to go through two economic catastrophes (GFC, Covid) without support and expect positive results. Things will just go from bad to worse.
Re: Boulder prohibits gatherings of any size for 18-22 year olds
#10Replace "18-22 year olds" with "blacks" or "Muslims" Is it still ethical? Legal? Effective?
It’s often legal to discriminate by age (that is literally what the drinking, driving, and smoking age limits are), but I believe that the government must have a compelling interest in the restriction. This one seems extremely shaky to me, but as is common it’s likely that a lot of people will end up paying fines since they can’t afford to fight an order that may not stand up to judicial scrutiny.