Talk:Izumi Akazawa/@comment-25409301-20140911182738/@comment-25409301-20140914124522

even if it was so that a 15 year old would have the thinking capacity a 19 year old should have that still leaves them underdeveloped. At an age of 19 it might become a bit more clear but far from being an adult as that is 21(legally) or 25+(scientificly)

But that aside even if it is true that there are counties that set age restrictions at lower boundries compared to other countries,that doesn't mean the brain developes with it in biological terms. The neurons in the brain that create certain bridges "highways" just aren't there yet. So certain action to conseqense connections can't be made yet and rational thinking like an adult is very challenging and in most cases impossible. There is also a certsin expariance factor that comes with it. Izumi has never been the head of countermeasures before nor has she ever gaurded the safety of lives before. Nor does she have a very good picture of the world around her and how it works. At an age of 15 what do you really know about people other then these guys are pricks and these guys aren't. But a true insight of people and how they think or reading their body expressions...i think not.

I think the reason izumi volunteered was because her brother died becauee of the 3-3 calamity and in her opinion the head of countermeasures didn't do his/her job well enough. So she decided she had to do it herself since (in her mind) she had the abillity to think more rational than others and make hard decisions. I think the moment her brother died that was the real turning point for her. Where she decided i have to make this work, i have to try. And she was so focused on making everything work she only focused on that and nothing else. So she put her job as head of countermeasures as a primary task.

But then again this opinion she has is again comming from the perspective of a 13/14 year old at the time. So that's even more in the past.

And about the word "teen brain", i don't think it was written by scientists them selfs but even if it were, what else are they supposed to call it? Underdeveloped young brain/ pre adolocent brain? Teen(age) brain works just fine cause that's exactly what it is. The brain of a teeneager. Eventually the choice of words isn't of big importance as long as the article is true. But if you want a different choiche of words anyway you can always google different articles on google, there are hundereds of them.