Every time people call teenagers 'children', I'm reminded of the twelve-year-olds that willingly volunteered to fight in the American Revolutionary war.
Infantilization is just an excuse people make to allow for bad behavior to go unpunished. He made a man's choice, let him face a man's consequence.
A child's ignorance would be a reasonable defense if, once he was older and wiser, he stopped supporting evil.
He hasn't.
A child? He was 16 or thereabouts.
Every time people call teenagers 'children', I'm reminded of the twelve-year-olds that willingly volunteered to fight in the American Revolutionary war.
Infantilization is just an excuse people make to allow for bad behavior to go unpunished. He made a man's choice, let him face a man's consequence.