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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: The adult has a child's mind, the child has an adult's mind.
| quote: | Originally posted by Arbiter
Who are "they?" |
Law reform commissions, lobby groups, judges, politicians... the vast body of people that are involved in creating law.
| quote: | | And, again, I have no gripe with "their" appropriately low estimation of the general level of "mental acuity" of those under 18, but I remain unpersuaded that a majority of those above 18 should be permitted to engage in sex if we genuinely believe it should be prohibited for those who do not possess the capacity to take responsibility for their actions. |
It's an arbitrary figure. I'd suggest the opposite.. I think people over the age of 14 or 15 are probably responsible enough to consent to sex but under 18s don't have a political voice, whereas their parents (ho were raised in a very different time and still have archaic notions) do.
| quote: | | Are you speaking from personal experience here? Personally I lack the comparative frame of reference to draw any such conclusion, but I'm willing to take your word for it if you do. Either way, though, the crucial words are "quite as." |
Both personal and common. A great number of ssingle young men on any given weekend are out trying to get laid. Their general failure is so commonplace as to be cliche and a common subject of jokes and urban mythology.
Are you suggesting you never try to pick women up, or that you always succeed?
| quote: | | The problem is that by your own standard (I quote you again: "as long as a law protects vastly more people than it restricts then it's justifiable") the particular age chosen (or indeed any age) would be severely underinclusive. If we genuinely care about protecting people from themselves (rather than merely rationalizing a cultural taboo), then why not use some sort of certification process like we do for driving. If we really think sex is so dangerous, why open the flood gates the minute someone reaches their 18th birthday? |
We will have to agree to disagree. While I am certain that most people of any age are extremely stupid. I think Most kids over the age of 15 or 16 are (or should be) mature enough to make their own decisions about their bodies. Raising it to 18 "just in case" or to fit in all the children of idiotic evangelical families that brought their children up believing in some form of Lala-land instead of the real world, is acceptible to me.
| quote: | I understand the paternalistic desire to protect the helpless from themselves, I really do.
But in the end, it does more harm than good. We need to weed these folks out while they're still young. A practice of keeping people safe who require such constant supervision is how the George Bushes and Sarah Palins of the world make it to adulthood, not to mention their throngs of supporters. If we're going to control the minuteae of their lives to make sure that they don't do anything incredibly stupid while they are children, then we at the very least have to take responsibility for the adults we're creating and continue to oversee them for their entire lives. |
Ofcourse allowing children to make mistakes is important. And if I have a kid I hope I will have raised them well enough for them to make their own decisions about their bodies in their teens. But I still wouldn't be happy if a rugby team could have sex with my 12 year old child and it not be a crime... And I doubt you'll find very many 2 year olds around who can cook themselves a meal without sustaining 3rd degree burns.
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