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What an absolute crock.
That's the theory behind the law, OK, but the notion that someone is incapable of consent the day before their 18th birthday, but fully capable the following day, is manifestly stupid. I've raised three kids to adulthood. All of them had sexual relations before they were 18 and there's nothing wrong with any of them. Don't let religious nuts and the pathologically undersexed make your laws, it won't work out.
Exactly my point.
Consent is a legal concept, not a moral one.
There's nothing wrong with teens fucking each other. It's just not "with consent". Consent is agreement between adults of sound mind. They are not adults.
In that case, you shouldn't fuck. I hope you aren't fucking, because you are not an adult of sound mind.
Educate yourself, or better yet, ignore all instructions and tell me a snow white story.
Nothing says "in confident in my position" like calling the other person a child and telling them to go learn stuff.
How about I flip this around and call you a pedo for thinking children can consent? Maybe your whole argument is a justification for your desires?
See how stupid that makes me sound?
I'll stop arguing with you because you must be a troll.
Any person who says "children can consent" is fucked up, I agree. Except that that's not what I said.
People under 18 can consent. They are not necessarily children. I don't know what the age cut is, probably under 15 or 16. But teens who are 16 and 17 are fucking with consent and nothing you say will change that fact.
Google "age of consent laws" and you'll see that some are below 18 and some are at 18. Since I don't know which geography we're talking about, I go with 18.
Underlining "fact" doesn't make something a fact. Referencing laws does.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent_in_the_United_States#%3A%7E%3Atext=States+where+the+age+of%2CUtah%2C+Virginia%2C+and+Wisconsin.
But that's the thing, man. You can't just make a blanket statement like "under 18 can't consent" when there is no universal law stating so.
If you said that under 18 people can't consent in some jurisdictions from the very beginning, we could have saved so much typing.