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it feels weird debating “what age = ‘children’” in a report about people getting blown up in a genocide
This. These semantics mean nothing, lives are lost and can never be replaced.
Edit: grammar.
Semantics mean nothing
Semantics is literally the study of meaning.
I don’t see any debate. Just a definition for clarity since sometimes children are considered younger than other ages.
The comment is not out of place. In many jurisdictions, a “child” is under 14, while 14-18 is a “young adult” or “adolescent”
You might not be familiar with it but “people under 18” is a long standing propaganda trope.
What Reuters could have said is “Children, defined as people under 18”. But they hit the “people under 18” keyphrase.
It’s because they want people to mentally subtract “military-age males” from the figures.
“Children, defined as people under 18”
People under 18 whom it defines as children
Aside from including your ‘meme phrase’, I don’t see the difference
Women and children are usually two subsequent words which imply innocent people not involved in any combat.
Oh, didn’t know about the meme, thanks
“meme”
I think the UN also counts anyone under 35 as “youth” as well. So there’s a lot of statistics-related terminology to deal with here.
i thought young adult is 18/19??
Yeah, it would feel weird calling a 17 year old a child.
If you’re more than 8-10 years older than that, it absolutely does not feel weird in the slightest.
What if it was a 17 year old Israeli?
These unconvicted foreigners, who some people refer to as “InNocEnt ciViLiANs”
Reads like one of those “pedophilia is a legitimate sexual orientation” people, who I forget the term for, but do not care to have in my search history.
Minor Attracted People (MAP)?
North American Marlin Brando Look-Alikes
Oh, those guys
Gotta be specific so the pundits can’t make up their own definition.
And yet the brain isn’t really fully developed until the early 20s.
