Thread: Jessica Watson
View Single Post
  #64 (permalink)  
Old 11-03-2009
artbyjody's Avatar
artbyjody artbyjody is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Elliott Bay Marina, J 28 Seattle, WA
Posts: 3,150
Rep Power: 8
artbyjody is just really nice artbyjody is just really nice artbyjody is just really nice artbyjody is just really nice
Send a message via AIM to artbyjody Send a message via Yahoo to artbyjody
Quote:
Originally Posted by erikdj View Post
The average lifespan of a man in the 15th century was 30 years. I'm not sure that's a fair comparison. The age of consent for marriage was also 12. Not sure we want to roll back to that either.
And your point is - dismissing a right of passage because of age alone.. seems barbaric in a way... because historically - history is defined by those young because they didn't have the life to look forward to...
__________________
-- Jody

S/V "
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
" -
1983, Barberis Show 38! or
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.



To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.







Reply With Quote Share with Facebook