RE: Supreme Court Same Sex Marriage Argumet
August 7, 2015 at 1:50 pm
(This post was last modified: August 7, 2015 at 1:51 pm by Anima.)
(August 7, 2015 at 1:13 pm)Neimenovic Wrote: 10 year olds do not have the mental capacity to give informed consent. Animals cannot communicate consent.
Jesus cocksucking Christ.
You cannot equal consenting adults to an adult and a child or an adult and an animal. Stop. It makes you look like a fucking idiot.
Really? Half of the country does not have the mental capacity to give informed consent. They sign contracts with legal language the do not understand and agree to mortgages they cannot afford based on math they cannot understand.
Now for the 5th time at least:
1. The legal age of consent is arbitrary we all agreed it was 13 years old at one time and there is no reason why we may not agree it is higher or lower than 18 in the future, but why should they be forced to conform to society's norms on when they are mature enough to consent or not?
2. What constitutes consent varies from state to state. With that said it is generally held consent may be denoted explicitly by written or verbal expression (this is generally applicable in bilateral contracts) or implicitly by conduct (generally applicable in unilateral contracts) or in the event of unconsciousness a reasonable assumption the other party would consent (this one generally comes into play when a doctor is performing surgery for X; notice and takes care of Y while they are in there).
3. Children may consent to the exercise of a fundamental right at 5 years of age or older. If we are going to argue marriage and exercising of sexual identity is a fundamental right, then guess what.
4. Children may also enter into contracts with adults. It is even for this reason that if a child may show they have contracted for necessities and their own security they may be emancipated from their parents under the age of 18. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_of_minors, http://www.newser.com/story/168574/11-ch...ation.html You will see several emancipated themselves to avoid child labor laws.
Would you like to present your argument for why a child's consent choice is less than an "adults"? Or are you just assuming the continued stigmatization of children's decisions is okay?
