system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
I think the culture of 'going away for college' at age 18 needs to be re-thought. CMV.

High school grads are just too young and irresponsible to live away from home en masse. CMV.
gpt
Yep, sure are. That's the short answer. These high school grads are dumb, irresponsible, and entirely prone to make mistakes.

The upside is that these high school grads are dumb, irresponsible and entirely prone to make mistakes. Leaving home at 18, with the possibility of return to the nest if the mistakes are too damaging or numerous, is a good way to take the training wheels off on life. Without family there to stabilise them, they are likely to spend too much money, do too much partying and generally be pretty dumb. Just as we learn something from falling and scraping our elbows when we're young under the watchful eyes of our parents, leaving the nest to go to college is a way for a person to engage with the responsibilities of the 'real world' without being all-in quite yet. They acclimatize to the world away from home gradually, and instead of risking ruining their lives when there is nobody there to bail them out, they risk having problems when there are support systems still in place to catch them (though perhaps not without a bit of bruising).