Youth.

Society tells us we can drive at 16, vote at 18, and drink at 21. Does that mean one is more responsibility than the other? Is that was society is telling us?
Or if we think well Germany is drinking at 15 why do we drink at age 21? Is it that we're more immature can we not handle the responsibility at 15? With that will we respond like we are more immature, and can't handle that much responsibility. That was exactly the main focus of yesterdays seminar, more specifically on the voting age though, and also rather than saying "I think" posing it as question.
The groups were divided in boy and girls, and on the article "You're 16, You're beautiful, and You're a voter" I don't feel like this was our best seminar, or at least I noticed I was less engaged. I was passionate about the argument, but couldn't express my opinion as well as usual, the problem is unknown. Although it was a lot better than our practice seminar a couple days before.
The practice one was the time to get rid of the last "I thinks" this seminar there were a lot more opinionated posed questions. When Imanni was explaining that lowering the drinking age wouldn't necessarily mean some teens not being able to handle it but rather just allow the numbers to go up, Marissa was arguing against it, then I asked if it would really make a difference? That was my highlight of the entire seminar, I found that to be the perfect example of what Cortney wanted us to improve on.
The idea of granting kids privileges at a young age would have to come gradually, like when you're learning to drive you receive your permit then license. Drinking would go along with permit and voting with a civics class. However this would be nice, it may just be making these privileges a bigger deal.