I’d sorta agree on the literal wording of “…other people might not be mentally developed enough to make that decision until age 19 or 20.” I was chatting with people in their 30s-50s when I was 16-18. I was lying about my age to them all, but when I did hit 18 and I met up with someone (and got over the crisis of identity and and cracking the egg) I came to the conclusion a few years later that I really wasn’t ready to make that decision. I don’t regret it at this point since experimenting ended up being a net positive for me in the end, I might have reached it in a bit less of a chaotic manner since things were already moving towards the egg cracking anyway.
I’d sorta agree on the literal wording of “…other people might not be mentally developed enough to make that decision until age 19 or 20.” I was chatting with people in their 30s-50s when I was 16-18. I was lying about my age to them all, but when I did hit 18 and I met up with someone (and got over the crisis of identity and and cracking the egg) I came to the conclusion a few years later that I really wasn’t ready to make that decision. I don’t regret it at this point since experimenting ended up being a net positive for me in the end, I might have reached it in a bit less of a chaotic manner since things were already moving towards the egg cracking anyway.