[peteretep]

Can't you simply renounce your citizenship at 18?

[vasco]

One would think that if one was to renounce its citizenship, waiting for a predefined age set by whom you will be renouncing would be rather odd.

[peteretep]

Defacto your legal guardians have signed you up to this until the age of majority. That seems pretty reasonable, under any jurisdiction.

[adaml_623]

'legal guardians' AND 'jurisdiction'. These are concepts that weren't negotiated when signing up for the L-a-a-S.

(just continuing OPs direction of thought)

[peteretep]

This reduces to absurdity pretty quickly, when you start complaining that babies don't sign up for any of the decisions their parents make on their behalf. No shit. Almost everything your parents sign you up for can be undone at an age that's almost universally close to 18 from the perspective of the state.

Compare and contrast that with Islamic or Scientological interpretation of apostacy if you're really looking for a service your parents signed you up for and you can't easily get out of...