When reading about psychological
development in regards to decision making and risk taking I
immediately thought of the fact that you can enroll and in fact be
deployed in the United States army at 18 and yet, according to our
text our ability to make wise decisions does not fully develop until
we are, at least 22. I of course support our troops and what they do
for us, but question the law surrounding when people are allowed to
enlist. There is certainly a plus for the government in allowing such
young people to enroll as they are still more prone to risk taking
behavior and more subject to “groupthink” which is essential for
the comradely of the military. People often point out that it seems
absurd that the government allows youth to decide weather or not they
want to be subjected to potential death and make decisions about
taking human lives before being trusted to be able to make the choice
to drink. Definitely the chapter and its assessment of development in
regards to thought and decision making sheds some perhaps fearful
light on the laws of enlistment.
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