Should US Presidents have an age limit?

[tango]

Yes, but my comment was about persons of advanced age. Your comment here is about people at the other end of life. Therefore, the two are not part of the same situation.


That's a different argument with different considerations. It may be worth discussing, but it isn't part of what I was speaking to.

I'm not sure you can pull this line of reasoning.

The logic that says "most people over (BAC limit) are too impaired to drive safely so that's the legal limit" isn't functionally different from the logic that says "most people over (age) are too old to hold a particular office so that's the legal limit".

The former limits those who are particularly resistant to alcohol based on the limits of the majority, the latter limits those who are particularly resistant to the effects of time based on the limits of the majority.

If your argument is simply to defer to the individual then logically we must sweep away all legislation that restricts the many based on aggregate estimates of what an average person can handle.

 

[Albion]

If your argument is simply to defer to the individual... .

It's not. However, I suspect that explaining the point further won't do any good,

 

[tango]

It's not. However, I suspect that explaining the point further won't do any good,

It pretty much is, if you're saying that because some can exceed a limit the limit shouldn't be applied.

 

[Albion]

It pretty much is, if you're saying that because some can exceed a limit the limit shouldn't be applied.

It's that you want to compare apples and oranges. The situation with the elderly and that of the young are not identical, therefore one size doesn't logically fit all.