nepalnt21
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i'm arguing it because you said that people are obfuscating the issue by calling children in their late teens children.
and they're correct, idk why you care to make the distinction. not only is it semantically correct to call them children (as at least one common definition fits them there), but the parents of the dead children still have dead children whether they are 10 or 17.
shit, if you really wanna get obfuscating, i (and others i know of) wasn't (weren't) an 'adult' until my late 20s. obviously that's not technically correct to call me a child in my late 20s, maybe muddying the issue, but i dunno what point you're trying to make... that 17 year old children dead by gun violence shouldn't be mourned as children? we should make a new category for children that you decide are children? honestly, i don't get it.
and they're correct, idk why you care to make the distinction. not only is it semantically correct to call them children (as at least one common definition fits them there), but the parents of the dead children still have dead children whether they are 10 or 17.
shit, if you really wanna get obfuscating, i (and others i know of) wasn't (weren't) an 'adult' until my late 20s. obviously that's not technically correct to call me a child in my late 20s, maybe muddying the issue, but i dunno what point you're trying to make... that 17 year old children dead by gun violence shouldn't be mourned as children? we should make a new category for children that you decide are children? honestly, i don't get it.