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Re: Why are children incapable of consent?

Posted by Hajduk on Sunday, August 31 2014 at 04:51:54AM
In reply to Re: Why are children incapable of consent? posted by EthanEdwards on Thursday, August 28 2014 at 8:34:47PM


There's no legal problem with peers who are close in age engaging in all sexual activities, though concern may be expressed about whether it's a good idea.

Ah yes! Give 10 and 11 year olds vaccines which can potentially kill them to prevent something that is not legal for them to be infected with for another 5 or 8 years...

the cost to refraining from all sexual activity (with others) rises dramatically with age.

[Citation needed]

The legal position that the adults cannot trust the expressed consent of these minors protects many of them against situations with a high probability of regret and against indisputable rape.

Meanwhile, I can pay for an 18yo's dinner and obtain her consent, making her legal, for $100 - but since no amount of dinners will make a 12yo legal, I'll just cut to the chase and rape her.

DUH!

On this view no one would prosecute a minor for taking or distributing a sexual selfie.

...which unlike consensual sex, has led to suicides. Great way of caring!

The prohibition is motivated simply by best judgment as to what maximizes the long-term happiness of the minors involved.

How's Amanda Todd's long term happiness going?

One way we can see this is that sex-positive people holding this position have no desire to punish minors who engage in sexual activity, only the adults.

Oh yeah, only the Black men were punished by Jim Crow's anti-miscegenation laws!

They would feel no need to bully the minors into evaluating a past sexual experience one way or the other, and would not prosecute adults without the freely chosen cooperation of the minor involved.

Your shameless lying about the omnibenevolence of police really has to stop.









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