Re: Do you remember....
Please dont raise fatwas in cases where the issue is so obvious.
MQ, it is not very obvious, well maybe only in your head.
I agree with you that maturity doesn't only depend on age and that is why I don't agree with strict 18/21 age milestones but the legal people argue that you have to draw a line somewhere. The 12 year old in Africa is different than the 12 year old in NYC than to a 12 year old in Pakistan. Their life experiences make them at a different level of maturity.
I am only arguing after witnessing children in the juvenile correctional facility that most of them are no juvenile, nor the correctional facility making them any better, or the idea that somehow halfing their sentence will somehow make them a better person.