• @Buffalox
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    163 days ago

    Ukraine lowered the mobilization age from 27 to 25 in April 2024 but resisted the international partners’ calls to further lower it to 18.

    I always thought 18 seemed low, seems to me like an attempt to get them young and naive, and easier to mold.
    21 should be the earliest IMO.

    • petrescatraian
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      13 days ago

      @Buffalox Here in Europe, 18 is generally considered the adulthood age, beyond which you can get a license, you can vote, you can buy property, you have full responsibility of yourself in front of the law etc. - so it would be something along those lines.

      I personally didn’t feel that adult at that age either, though…

      @Cephalotrocity

      • bluGill
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        12 days ago

        It is interesting looking at adult age through out history. I’m not even a historian. Females have been considered adults as young as 10, and males as young as 12 (just that I’m aware of). On the other extreme males have been considered kids as old as 50 (Romans your dad decided or he died, so I support a 3 year old male may have been an adult. I’m not sure how they treated females other than they were a very sexist society)