RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 What a drag it is getting old: a response to Räsänen
JF Journal of Medical Ethics
JO J Med Ethics
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Institute of Medical Ethics
SP 467
OP 468
DO 10.1136/medethics-2019-105494
VO 45
IS 7
A1 Iain Brassington
YR 2019
UL http://jme.bmj.com/content/45/7/467.abstract
AB In this brief response to Joona Räsänen’s argument for the coherence and desirability of being able legally to change one’s age, I outline a couple of reasons for thinking that the case he makes is deeply flawed. As such, I contend that we have no reason to think that age should be the kind of thing that one should be able to change legally. Moreover, we have at least one good reason for thinking that legal age change would be positively undesirable.