Should be symmetric though. You should be able to declare you're older than your chronological age too, in case you have premature aging symptoms, debilitating diseases, etc.
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I have a feeling I'll have been 42 for at least 50 years by the time I die
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Knowing your age accurately is actually a relatively recent thing. In the past, many people only vaguely knew their birth years I suspect, based on anecdata interviews of old people. Knowing age used to be an an upper-class thing for people who could pay priests to track it.
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Not quite. It's not a labeling joke, it's fundamental ambiguity in the relationship between subjective and objective time.
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What if age discrimination was illegal? That's right, it is.
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The article is interesting philosophically, but it would present some practical problems. Like what yardstick do you use to say you are a “50” year old? Does that reinforce some specific cultural viewpoint, valuing youth while devaluing age?pic.twitter.com/nixHta8aiA
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