>If I had to choose a stage of my life to become part of public records, I'd definitely pick my childhood over my adulthood.
that doesn't sound sensible unless you are assuming at adulthood you would be out of public records, in which case sounds great! because your adulthood will hopefully be a lot longer than your childhood. On the other hand I don't think an advanced society would work with that model.
Secondly - why do children need a higher standard?
People at different changes of their life are not necessarily the same people, a man at 50 might not be very much like who he was at 20. Unfortunately our society does not do much to support such a concept. It does however support the very rudimentary concept that things you did as a child should not follow you as an adult - when you have different legal responsibilities and possibilities of action. So that is something that probably shouldn't be taken away.
Furthermore as a child is not fully developed in reasoning it is probably nice that things the child does is not part of their permanent record.
that doesn't sound sensible unless you are assuming at adulthood you would be out of public records, in which case sounds great! because your adulthood will hopefully be a lot longer than your childhood. On the other hand I don't think an advanced society would work with that model.
Secondly - why do children need a higher standard?
People at different changes of their life are not necessarily the same people, a man at 50 might not be very much like who he was at 20. Unfortunately our society does not do much to support such a concept. It does however support the very rudimentary concept that things you did as a child should not follow you as an adult - when you have different legal responsibilities and possibilities of action. So that is something that probably shouldn't be taken away.
Furthermore as a child is not fully developed in reasoning it is probably nice that things the child does is not part of their permanent record.