It's dehumanizing because it feels like you're an incomplete human with no agency.
replyWhen I was a teenager, there was nothing I hated more than obnoxious adults deciding for me what I could or couldn't do. I did literally everything in my power to circumvent them.
we are all incomplete human beings with limited agency.
protecting minors us about understanding stages of development.
replyThe larger the list of thing minors cannot do, the more they will resent the constraints.
replyI don't want or need governments and corporations to "understand" my development. I'll take care of that myself, thanks.
replyChildren absolutely should have less agency than adults.
reply"Minors" should have less agency than adults, but the state of "minor" vs adult does not follow the plain age. (And of course there exist many dimensions of maturity.)
reply(In fact, in some educational systems, the final examination in pre-University schools is called "Maturity test".)
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replyIt's not just Claude. It's being cut off from every part of society except a carefully curated "child ghetto". In which you stay until the day you turn 18. At which point you're shoved out into the outside world. Possibly cut off from all your existing contacts, in fact, since now you're an "adult" and it's presumed dangerous for you to interact with a "child" in any noninstitutional way.
replyYes, most of society is online nowadays, or at least is hard to engage in if you can't access the online stuff that organizes it.