Ziggurat
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He can use whatever definition he wants. He doesn’t get to insist on which definition anyone else gets to use.
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Greta Thunberg - brave campaigner or deeply disturbed?
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He can use whatever definition he wants. He doesn’t get to insist on which definition anyone else gets to use.
arthwollipot
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She will be of a legal majority age in 15 months. She's not a child, except in the most narrow technical sense.
Matthew Best
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Yes, but one of the things I've learned in my 13 years on this forum is that "technically" correct is the best kind of correct.
arthwollipot
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What were you doing when you were almost 17? I know what I was doing, and it was nowhere near as mature and socially responsible as what she's doing.
What she is doing doesn't turn her magically into an adult.
And let's face it. The fact she is a child is her whole sales pitch.
"You have stolen my dreams and my childhood!!!"
"I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean!!!”
(While reading those two quotes, you need to imagine it being read by Sylvester Stallone' at the end of Rambo II, to get the right level of acting"
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arthwollipot
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Doesn't the fact that she considers her childhood to have been stolen suggest that she doesn't think of herself as a child any more?
Yes
She would rather be doing what she should be doing as a child and going to school, but they have made her become an international celebrity.
Hence the stealing her childhood.
arthwollipot
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You do realise that someone who is no longer a child can still say "you stole my childhood", right?
They can do, if they weren't also saying they should be in school.
arthwollipot
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I was still in school when I was 17, though it was my last year.
Circular argument
Age of adulthood in Sweden 18 and she started her "thing" at 15 any.
Which is the age you should be technically basing it on.
arthwollipot
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Why? People, including you, are calling her a child now.
It was just an after thought point.
And she is a child for another 1 and 1/2 odd years
arthwollipot
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15 months, actually, as I pointed out. According to Wikipedia her birthday is in January.
arthwollipot
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When she hits 18 I'm wondering how long it'll be before she announces her campaign to run for the Swedish Parliament.
Then she loses amazing kid, so young, yet changing the world adoration.
arthwollipot
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When's that arbitrary cutoff?
When she is an adult.
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