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Yes, it's a quite common but bad argument

Posted by Dissident on Tuesday, December 16 2014 at 04:37:58AM
In reply to A bad anti argument I hear posted by Breathoflife on Monday, December 15 2014 at 8:01:02PM

I've actually dealt with this typical argument many times before on this board, and so have open-minded scientists like Paul Okami long before I ever did.

As Okami noted, it's virtually impossible to find two individuals with absolutely equal power in all ways. For instance: You could find couple consisting of a man and a woman, or two men, or two women, with roughly equal station in life, but one of the two partners is physically stronger than the other. Or a boss may be dating an employee, or a college professor a student. Or you can find a couple where one is independently affluent in financial terms, and the other is not. You can find a couple where one is smarter than the other; or faster; or a has a more worldly background due to, mayhap, having long periods of traveling whereas the other never even left their home village for their entire lives (and all of this regardless of which was younger or older).

The only adults who have major degrees of power over children and young adolescents are their direct legal guardians, teachers, coaches, etc. And the only reason there is any degree of legal power disparity at all is because children and young adolescents are denied their full citizenship by the state, thus making this an artificial and fully amendable imbalance of power.

In fact, it could be very cogently argued that under the current circumstances, the younger person would have greater power in a very strong sense, since they could easily ruin the life of a hypothetical older partner by threatening to make a simple phone call.




Dissident





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