nukes
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And let's say my daughter is 17 and a half years old and some pervy 42 year old bastard met her on Tinder and couldn't wait for her 18th birthday. Prosecute to the fullest extent of the law. The law is there for a reason.
My thinking person thought is you initiated it as a crime. Shows intent.More along the lines of "well ya gotta draw a line somewhere" vs. having consensual sex with someone aged 17 years, 364 days (or whatever legal age is -1 day) and you committed sexual assault on a minor. Do the same thing the next day and it's perfectly fine.
Hell if you time it right you could even go from felon to innocent during the act.
To a thinking person that makes no sense.
again intent.Also law is made up by people and changes.
If the law changed to 21 or 25 should people still wait or get fucked by the law? At what point does the law itself become ridiculous?
We'd have to test and rate each young person on a regular basis to make it fair AND safe for Them and burden them with legal responsibilities appropriately. Current system is based on generalizations. If you have a better way to apply legal guidelines to developing humans, do tell.People don't suddenly mature or morph from child to adult in minutes or a day. It's a long process.
According to the law though, they magically go from minor who can't make their own decisions to full blown adult and everything that comes with it overnight.
There are many laws that I disagree with. Age of consent laws are not any of those laws. Yes the numbers are arbitrary but we had to draw the line somewhere and I'm pretty okay with 18.
We'd have to test and rate each young person on a regular basis to make it fair AND safe for Them and burden them with legal responsibilities appropriately. Current system is based on generalizations. If you have a better way to apply legal guidelines to developing humans, do tell.
Yes. I'm consistent.It's 16 in North Carolina. Is that OK just because the law says so?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_North_America
We're both acknowledging that would be nice because using age isn't fair on an individual basis. I want to know how that would be done/decided. Some people are dead serious and mature at 15, others not at 60.Some kinda sliding scale?
Apparently so. We have criminal laws and civil court systems. The law is the law. They provide a means of reducing criminals in our midst and to live more civilly. Not everyone wants to forgo calling the po-po or an attorney as needed.It's 16 in North Carolina. Is that OK just because the law says so?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_North_America
We're both acknowledging that would be nice because using age isn't fair on an individual basis. I want to know how that would be done/decided. Some people are dead serious and mature at 15, others not at 60.
Apparently so. We have criminal laws and civil court systems. The law is the law. They provide a means of reducing criminals in our midst and to live more civilly. Not everyone wants to forgo calling the po-po or an attorney as needed.
Yes. I'm consistent.
It's the exact same people doing the exact same thing.** It may well be legal in one place and illegal in another but it can't be both right and wrong.
Look, people a lot smarter than you or I have figured out that simply being in the boundaries of South Carolina makes you smarter and more mature.
(this only works if iirc OOD's coffee shop is in SC. For the sake of the post, this is assumed!)
this is why I trust OOD & Nukes over Floridamans!It is. FL is 18. SC and NC are 16.
Sometimes blanketing is the only way to reduce people gaming the system with bribes and such. The time and cost to try to fairly adjudicate every aspect of life would be astronomical. Laws aren't presumed to be fair in all cases, just in the majority. So we have some guidelines and boundries that all are made aware of. Sentencing guidelines for judges is about all the latitude you can expect if you fall short of the glory of the LAW(D).Kinda what I'm getting at. Make a blanket law and disregard people being different.
More along the lines of "well ya gotta draw a line somewhere" vs. having consensual sex with someone aged 17 years, 364 days (or whatever legal age is -1 day) and you committed sexual assault on a minor. Do the same thing the next day and it's perfectly fine.
Hell if you time it right you could even go from felon to innocent during the act.
To a thinking person that makes no sense.
he was a young 17 and she was an old 15.
Flip it around and make him 17 and her 42.
OK.
Main point is can't always use law as some delineator between right and wrong.
If your daughter and her boyfriend went to visit Ape&fly and did it in the bathroom where it's 18, that would be considered wrong and he'd be a felon. If they stopped at OOD's coffeeshop on the way back and did it in the bathroom there where it's 16, that would be considered right and OK.*
It's the exact same people doing the exact same thing.** It may well be legal in one place and illegal in another but it can't be both right and wrong.
* Assuming non gender specific bathrooms in both cases.
** It feels f'n weird using your kids in examples like this.
idk. I think you've got to thank individual states for slowly turning around the national view of marijuana. It's supposed to work this way for all states, in a slow, deliberate competitive arena.State’s Rights are stupid.