RE: Supreme Court Same Sex Marriage Argumet
August 5, 2015 at 10:28 am
(This post was last modified: August 5, 2015 at 12:09 pm by Ace.)
(August 3, 2015 at 1:28 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote:(July 11, 2015 at 8:44 am)Ace Wrote: I have a question. Why must a relationship be only among the consenting (legal)? We know many young people, even children engage with each other sexually, with some becoming pregnant in the process) but why only legal consenting? True, the issue of maturity can be argued however, many of those who engaged in sex at a young age (such as primary, middle and in high school) would say that it was their full right to do so and feel that it was their right to decide the issue of their own body. Many have no regrets and many want to start having children at a young age, (also forgo any argument to economic because not all have children)
hell, like many have argued sex is the most natural act of humans that has been done the dawn of our existences, regardless of ones education, race, religion, nation, ect.
Why should such a natural act have any restrictions to it?
is it not natural to become desirable to become another, attracted to another, become aroused?
Why trying to stop or hinder such a natural effect/reaction that individuals just do?
I can see where your coming from, but the issue here is one of protecting young people from predators who take advantage.
True,the age of consent is in place to help prevent the youth from being taken advantage but, not all who engage in sex are predators. Yet, lets take the predator issue and say that even women in adult age are targeted by predators and many are actual victimizes of such deviants. Can it be said that women, regardless of age, need to be given a type of safety net to protect her form predators also? How about we make it a rule that in order for women to have sex, they need the consent of their father for every sexual act they engage in all the time? The father is to give the o.k. after viewing the men to see if they could be possible predators or all men that a women engages with must be submitted to a background check. (which does not really sound like a bad idea given the dangerous people that are out there)

Yes predators are present and their victims are all choosing indiscriminately (men, women, young, old) To try and prevent it form happening would be good if such a policy actually worked. It is mostly imposable to even think that any crime can be prevented, in fact the majority of the cases were sexual abuse/rape occurs is after the crime took place.
Now we can argue the child may not have the mental capacity to understand what they are engaging in, however that argument its self is not stopping at all for young teens and kids that are already engaging in sex. In In fact many have argued that they are very much aware what they are doing and should be given the right to decide to do so.
Interestingly in Sweden for example a child at the age of 6 or 7 can make a medical decision to be given assistant suicide. In some states teens as young as 15 can decide to have an abortion without the connect of their parents. And as stated before, kids can own a gun at the age of 5. So now the question becomes that if we can allow children to make life and death, adult, and dangerous decision now on some very heavy issues that can be argued are way more complected then sex. What is reason to say no for them to decided any other right to their own body?