If you're college age, you're a child. Or so says Salon writer Eric Posner. No, he's not confused about the legal age of majority. What he means is that college students are immature and need to be treated accordingly. Paternalism, according to Posner, is entirely appropriate: you and your peers "must be protected like children while being prepared to be adults." Furthermore, he argues, it's what you really want, whether you know it or not. Here's the context: Lately, a moral panic about speech and sexual activity in universities has reached a crescendo. Universities have strengthened rules prohibiting offensive speech...
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