Plenty of 12 year old morons, and 90 year old razor sharp professors, as counter examples.
Either way, those same old folks are the ones who’d need to sign off on the rules banning their existence and I don’t see them doing that.
So who are the idiots exactly?
Personally, I think it’s the folks who think more rules will make a difference against someone who is explicitly great at violating rules and getting away with it. While pretending to be a moron.
Mother Nature has made this particular rule, and you can only fool her for so long. 80+ year old people do not belong in positions of power, any more than 8-year-olds do. They should step aside and let the next generation take responsibility for their own future.
(Or rather make them take responsibility, in the case of voters who insist on electing Trumps, Reagans, Bidens, and Feinsteins simply because those are the candidates they've heard about, due to their having been around the longest.)
If no one can unseat the king, they’re still the king.
Well, in theory, we weren't supposed to have kings here, but it appears that the voters are going to insist on one.
And after all, if they really are as dumb and incompetent as you say that should be easy eh?
That's my usual response to Trumpers complaining about Democrats in my own state's legislature. I have to say, though, that it doesn't work any better for me than it will for you.
OK so let's say it's ageism, why should I care again?
If your president can barely finish a coherent sentence and literally pisses in a plastic bag strapped to his leg I don't care how you call it but I want none of it
Same reason I don't leave my newborn baby alone with my 95 years old grandma who has dementia, call it ageism if you want, I call it basic common sense
It's usually used as a slur, though. Not letting 3 year olds drive is changing behavior based on age, but sometimes you should be treating people differently based on some external attribute they cannot help. If most people a certain age do not meet the minimum requirements for the task (such as being able to see over the steering wheel and having a good judgement about rapidly changing situations), it is not "ageism" to say they cannot do something. Banning 3 year olds from driving is different than only hiring under-40 software developers.
I bet plenty of managers/owners could make arguments about the over-40 group, like unwillingness to work stupid hours, whatever random tech stack they want, etc.
It’s in the definition. Words have meaning.