"I said that prohibiting sex with much older people before the age of 16 does not prohibit the "good life". That's a very narrow assertion. It is very different from saying anything about what that good life actually is."

Actually, you didn't.

In case your amnesia is genuine, I refresh your memory from one post up;

""When I say they can wait a few years, I am talking about the role of sex in leading the good life, not satisfaction of urges at the moment.""

You contrast the "good life" with "satisfaction of urges at the moment."

And by contrasting with "good," you imply a bad.

So you may forgive me for doing a simple inversion. ( Of the sort we do when we read "not unwarranted" as synonymous with "warranted."

When I say they don't wait a few years, I am talking about the role of sex in leading to a bad life, not the deferral of momentary urges.

And I merely pointed out that if by "momentary" you are referring to a choice reflected on over several weeks, months or even YEARS, then we have ceased talking about "momentary" as in "acting in haste without reflection."

So I was trying to seek out anything you might've meant by "urges of the moment" in which the choice made over years counts.

Forgive me for trying to make sense out of what you say.

I will accept that you believe a child's "urges" to be so overwhelming that mere weeks or months of reflection cannot overcome them, only years. That only an arbitrary natal anniversary has the power to make the reasoning process of a child be anything other than a heedless impulse no matter how capable the child has proven in other matters nor how thoughtful in any nonsexual social relationship.

Dante