Talk:Izumi Akazawa/@comment-25409301-20140911182738/@comment-25409301-20140914110934

There have been lots of studies regarding maturity at certain ages. The brain is fully developed at about 25 maybe a bit later. You can find lots of articles cevering this subject.

I chose the following article because it states that "you don't have a fully developed brain at 16 when you're allowed to drive". Also that's the legal age in america. In the netherlands (my country) the legal age is 18. Ironicly you can get a drivers license at 17...

I also don't believe you need a fully developed mind to drive i've seen enough people on the road that question my faith in humanity lol.

The article:

http://hrweb.mit.edu/worklife/youngadult/brain.html

It is also proven that seing consequenses for certain actions is hard to impossible at young age. Aspecially at 15. You get that abillity at 23/24 ish when your brain is close to full development. There are simply not enough neurons in the braine to make such connections.

So in certain cases yes the age thing is over rated. Like playing violent video games. Or buying alcohol in my opinion (legal age used to be 16 in the netherlands now 18).

But choosing to be head of countermeasures is dangerous on a level a child rhat age can't fully understand. She understood you're in charge of this and that. But probably didn't fully get the idea of dying. When it comes to life and death decisions, 15 is to young even 18 is very young. 21 maybe but even then it's not a walk in the park.