Age of Consent

Well I don't have a problem because I reject the homosexuals interpretation of the 14th amendment. I feel like we, as a society, do have the right to discriminate against people.

 

Are you talking about private individuals or the government?

If you mean the former, then gay rights don't conflict with that.

If you mean the latter, well.... that's going down the road of oppression.

 

I think you'll find that most people disagree with the notion of legalizing those kind of relations. While apparently some people are attempting to legalize it, it's not going to happen. This is definitely a fringe element you're examining.

It's considerably less arbitrary when a sliding scale is used.

 

that's interesting

there are some states as well as Canada where a minor can go and get an abortion without parental consent and the parents do not get informed.

So, why is it OK in those areas for a minor to kill an unborn child but a 50 year old woman can't get busy with a 15 year old boy?

 

It's a good question, but I think it may have to do with certain related issues as far as the abortion goes.

In a lot of cases, pregnancy among minors can involve immediate family members. Obviously, that can create a conflict of interests between a victim and an abusive father.

When it's pregnancy that doesn't involve incest, then I guess I'd have to research the matter further as to the logic being used.

 

Actually, you should state that any reasonable person would.

There are groups like Nambla, and recently some people wanted to teach BDSM to grade school children.

And the UN publishes pamphlets that tell young children they have sexual rights to things like masturbation and the like.

So this is not an universal belief.

 

For most of our history, the age of consent began at sexual maturity. For man didn't live past their 30s and had to start younger. Pushing up the age of consent is a modern deal. My great aunt married at the age of 13, and in the south, you saw quite a bit of this in the era of my grandparents. People didn't call the men pedophiles. It was culturally acceptable.

So this age of consent is relative, and culturally based. Only the idiots think otherwise. Yet in most cases the age of consent never was before sexual maturation in most cultures. For pragmatic reasons perhaps.

In other areas, I stayed pissed off for awhile when I was 18, about to be shipped out to Vietnam, and couldn't even get a mixed drink on the airline. Old enough to die, but not old enough to have even drink. Ever since that time, the incoherence involving things like this reaffirms to me that America is basically insane, incoherent, and legislators are no better than village idiots.

 

Well, when it comes to masturbation, that's a personal matter that you can't really police except when it's done publicly.

I get the impression you're leaving out the context of the pamphlets.

 

Not really. They do have them online if you want to read them.