On legal age change.

Area of Science:

• Philosophy of Law
• Ethics
• Social Sciences

Background:

• Age discrimination and ageism are significant societal issues.
• Current legal frameworks define age based on birth date.
• Debates exist on individual rights and legal identity.

Purpose of the Study:

• To evaluate the ethical and legal arguments for changing one's legal age.
• To propose alternative methods for combating age discrimination.
• To critically assess the feasibility and implications of altering legal age.

Main Methods:

• Philosophical argumentation and ethical analysis.
• Review of existing literature on age, identity, and discrimination.
• Comparative analysis of proposed solutions for ageism.

Main Results:

• The proposal to change legal age rests on subjective feelings of age and discrepancies between biological and chronological age.
• An alternative approach involves restricting access to birth date information.
• The moral arguments for changing legal age are critically examined and found wanting.

Conclusions:

• The concept of changing legal age to prevent age discrimination is deemed impractical and ill-advised.
• Restricting access to birth dates presents a viable alternative for mitigating ageism.
• The study underscores the need for nuanced approaches to age-related discrimination.