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1/30/2014 1:28:59 AM
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I have plenty of responsible 14-year-old friends who go out airsofting every weekend, and never get injured.
Your point?
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So we should allow 14 year olds to buy alcohol and drive? By your logic this should be the case.
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dat strawman doe
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Its not a strawman. Its a legitimate analogy. OP states 18+ for airsoft. That would make it like alcohol or driving.
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Edited by DJ Mentle: 1/30/2014 2:50:56 AMWhat makes Airsoft as "bad" as drinking or driving? Drinking has profound negative impacts on underaged brains, and driving runs a serious risk of accident, injury, or death. Airsoft is just a pastime, I don't see people going around shooting up schools with their plastic pellet guns.
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No. Studies show they do not have the coordination and ability to safely drive. Alcohol causes damage to the developing brain, which is extremely the case with 14 year olds.
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But there are more developed and advanced 14 year olds! We should deny them too?
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No, because the brain doesn't finish developing until about one's mid-twenties.
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Alcohol and driving are completely different things
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Edited by RC5908: 1/30/2014 1:45:12 AMdamn charlie, really straw-manning it up in here, aren't you?
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It's not rly a strawman tho
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[quote]To "attack a straw man" is to create the illusion of having denied a proposition by replacing it with a different proposition (i.e., "stand up a straw man") and then deny it ("knock down a straw man") instead of the original proposition.[/quote]Nope, sounds like a strawman to me.
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It sounds like an analogy to me, but tomatoes tomatos I guess.
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If I built up an unrelated topic, and the linked it to an argument and then burned it down, then yes. So far these are legitimate analogies.
