• JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Appealing to majority is a bad way to make an argument. The age of consent in America shouldn’t be 16 because it is in other countries, like my own, the UK, but because in its own right a human of age 16 is mature enough to make their own decisions about this.

  • Andiloor@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I just looked it up for my country and the law is pretty complex but here’s what I gathered

    • 16 is the age of consent for sexual activity
    • romeo-and-juliet laws for 14 and 15 year olds (up to 5 years their senior, imo this is too much)
    • 16 and 17 year olds cannot consent if there is any power dynamic
    • 18 is the age of consent for pornography

    Imo it should probably be that the age of consent is 18, with 14-17 year olds under romeo-and-juliet laws (and maybe like 3 or 4 years their senior). High school is just such a different stage of life, and social acceptance into adulthood is at 18 anyway (though I personally didn’t feel like an adult till I was 21)

  • LorelaiL@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    Wow I had a whole crisis for creating the 196 on blahaj.zone because I thought it would move traffic away from the raddle. Now I am glad it moved traffic.