Define "people under 18"
Define "people under 18"
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The comment is not out of place. In many jurisdictions, a "child" is under 14, while 14-18 is a "young adult" or "adolescent"
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You might not be familiar with it but "people under 18" is a long standing propaganda trope.
What Reuters could have said is "Children, defined as people under 18". But they hit the "people under 18" keyphrase.
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It's because they want people to mentally subtract "military-age males" from the figures.
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"Children, defined as people under 18"
People under 18 whom it defines as children
Aside from including your 'meme phrase', I don't see the difference
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Oh, didn't know about the meme, thanks
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There needs to be a clear legal standard, and 18 Years is the arbitrary line we agreed on.
When a 17 Year old go to war, they are child soldiers, and when they get bombed/starve, they count towards the children death toll. -
I think the UN also counts anyone under 35 as "youth" as well. So there's a lot of statistics-related terminology to deal with here.
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No? Like fucking take the effort to verify you’re claims my dude
https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/youth
“There is no universally agreed international definition of the youth age group. For statistical purposes, however, the United Nations—without prejudice to any other definitions made by Member States—defines ‘youth’ as those persons between the ages of 15 and 24 years. This definition, which arose in the context of preparations for the International Youth Year (1985) (see A/36/215), was endorsed by the General Assembly in its resolution 36/28 of 1981. All UN statistics on youth are based on this definition, as is reflected in the annual yearbooks of statistics published by the UN system on demography, education, employment and health.”
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i thought young adult is 18/19??
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Yeah, it would feel weird calling a 17 year old a child.
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If you're more than 8-10 years older than that, it absolutely does not feel weird in the slightest.
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What if it was a 17 year old Israeli?
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These unconvicted foreigners, who some people refer to as "InNocEnt ciViLiANs"
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But who can really say, what defines children? /s
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Gotta be specific so the pundits can't make up their own definition.
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And yet the brain isn't really fully developed until the early 20s.
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It’s twenty five, not early twenties.
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it feels weird debating "what age = 'children'" in a report about people getting blown up in a genocide
This. These semantics mean nothing, lives are lost and can never be replaced.
Edit: grammar.
Semantics is literally the study of meaning.
I don't see any debate. Just a definition for clarity since sometimes children are considered younger than other ages.