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To establish if using a date of birth as a legal principle when determining eligibility, for anything, is possible, desirable or sensible. As the case of Khadr shows what determines maturity can be based on action, thought, ability and so on. Maybe we could go with peach fuzz...Omar Khadr's mustachioed appearance seemed to clinch it with certain people at the time. In the case of voting how do you think a 17 year old who'll turn 18 a week after an election would feel? If feelings and politics don't matter at all then sure it's easy to just use date of birth as a strict legal principle. Doing so just to take all the politics out of things makes sense in the ridiculously polarized world we live in don't you think? The trouble of course is that the idea of a legal principle is slipping away.

It's headed for the future in either case. It'll be hundreds of years at least until the ice covering Greenland melts enough to get at all those massive deposits that everyone is excited about.

Nope. Just saying but now I'm asking. Given his age, should Khadr have been treated as an adult or a child following his capture?

Omar Khadr was an adult when he was 15. Just sayin'.

With the cap back on the tube? Maybe you and Legato can back to us when you get the analogy figured out.

A limit on jurisprudence? That would have to apply to everyone if we're all the same.

Or it's the first time a uniquely wise cultured civilization brought a system of jurisprudence with them on their conquest - one that indigenous people eventually learned to use. You can't put toothpaste back in the tube.

So stop worrying about it, above all else stop being so ideological about it. AFAIC everything that's most fùcked up in the world stems from stubbornly unrelenting right vs left conflict over EVERYTHING. We owe it to our kids to bury our hatchets in one another's heads ourselves now. They'll be too busy fighting over potable water, cooler climes and whatever jobs AI feels is beneath them.

Canadians reject the claim they live on "stolen indigenous land". What really gets under people's skin is declaring you're an indigenous human from Earth. Please get your stupid countries and nations off my planet. Thanks.

You could based the same reasoning on boneheaded nonsense people around here incorporate into their discussions. The idea of a basic issues comprehension test for all voters comes to mind and I suspect many seniors would fail where teens succeed. What about the consequences of letting senile people vote?

Yup, nothing says you're a troll better than your patented smiley face. Did you shop around to find the one with the biggest smile? Rubber and glue is so you.

Actually the best way to back things up is letting you stooges spin them. The revisionism and denial in this thread is pretty phenomenal.

Hmmm, it sounds like you're saying Mohammad Mosaddegh's overthrow was a tragedy too. Maybe that's why Uncle Sam kept it a secret. Like America was ashamed of what it did or something. Why I wonder?

When did you start caring what happens to any Semitic people - was it before or after you started denying the Holocaust?

No, you can be sure whatever it was that happened it was all rainbows and lollipops. Are you aware of what a search engine is for or how to use one? And wtf does dinglenuts just above your post mean by given the circumstances they certainly would have? Circumstances...what circumstances?

The Founding Fathers would have been proud as punch. LMAO!

The point is that the Shiniest Beacon on Earth for democracy overthrew it...

Don't try telling that to numb-nuts above you. But yeah instead of nurturing it America saw fit to overthrow it instead.

So you're saying you people do give a fùck? I doubt it.

No. It doesn't matter how much evidence anyone produces - you people simply don't give a shit.

Meanwhile you people will reach back 2000-4000 years ago to denounce Palestinians. LMAO!

This question captures the pointlessness of arguing with you people about anything to do with the ME region. It's like the 'debate' over climate change. In any case, and for what little it's worth at this point...Iran's...nearly 75 years ago. Ancient history right?

No, you still lose every time.

LMAO!