Talk:Inari/@comment-25882222-20150724225047/@comment-71.197.246.55-20151012142415

It's mostly cultural, really. In Western cultures, 18 is a boy because kids are raised to be irresponsible. In other cultures, 14 might be a fully grown man with responsibilities -- for example, the age for a bar mitzvah reflects a cultural norm for maturity from way back in the old days. Nowadays, in many places you aren't considered mature enou to own and carry a gun until 18 or 21, but in older cultures, boys as young as 7 years old owned guns, went hunting, and used their guns maturely and responsibly, without adult supervision -- even though by today's cultural standards they'd be far too immature and irresponsible to even touch a gun, let alone have their own rifle. Don't assume that modern culture is the way things have always been.