Moral Case for Legal Age Change

dc.date.accessioned	2020-03-11T19:57:30Z
dc.date.available	2020-03-11T19:57:30Z
dc.date.created	2019-08-03T10:09:07Z
dc.date.issued	2019
dc.identifier.citation	Räsänen, Joona . Moral Case for Legal Age Change. Journal of Medical Ethics. 2019, 45(7), 461-464
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10852/73938
dc.description.abstract	Should a person who feels his legal age does not correspond with his experienced age be allowed to change his legal age? In this paper, I argue that in some cases people should be allowed to change their legal age. Such cases would be when: (1) the person genuinely feels his age differs significantly from his chronological age and (2) the person’s biological age is recognised to be significantly different from his chronological age and (3) age change would likely prevent, stop or reduce ageism, discrimination due to age, he would otherwise face. I also consider some objections against the view that people should be allowed to change their legal age and find them lacking.
dc.language	EN
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.title	Moral Case for Legal Age Change
dc.type	Journal article
dc.creator.author	Räsänen, Joona
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cristin.unitname	Institutt for filosofi, idé- og kunsthistorie og klassiske språk
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dc.identifier.cristin	1713876
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dc.identifier.jtitle	Journal of Medical Ethics
dc.identifier.volume	45
dc.identifier.issue	7
dc.identifier.startpage	461
dc.identifier.endpage	464
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2018-105294
dc.identifier.urn	URN:NBN:no-77048
dc.type.document	Tidsskriftartikkel
dc.type.peerreviewed	Peer reviewed
dc.source.issn	0306-6800
dc.identifier.fulltext	Fulltext https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/73938/1/Moral_Case_for_Legal_Age_Change.pdf.pdf
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