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[QUOTE="Cheetah, post: 670015, member: 28209"]
This debate is evolving into "control vs no-control".
 
I agree with most what zachvac said.  Just because someone is underage, that doesn't mean that we should treat them like stupid morons.  When I was 16, I had 30-year old friends and was discussing philosophy with them.
 
I think we should also distinguish between prohibited activities that can cause harm to kids or others, and activities that are much less damaging.  
 
Just because hunting for children is legal in the US doesn't make it something that is safe or good.  I would much rather have children pressing mouse buttons online than rifle triggers.
 
To extend this analogy, guns are legal in the US and the result is 20,000 murders per year.  No other industrialized country comes anywhere near that, even after normalizing for the popullation.  So, just because something is legal, that doesn't mean it is good and vice versa.
 
I think that people should be as free as possible and laws should be in place when there is a genuine potential damage to society.  People can use knives to kill themselves, and we don't ban them.  Knives are harder to use against someone else.  
 
Yet anywhere we ban drunk driving correctly because the potential damage to society is so high.  
 
Playing poker online doesn't hurt anyone, not even the underage player.  As zachvac pointed out, it can be even beneficial.  I think these are the important issues to consider, not the technicality of being 18 years old or 17, 11 months, 30 days and 23 hours.
 
I hope I haven't inadvertently spilled some more fuel in the fire.:eek:
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