RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
April 30, 2023 at 4:16 pm
(This post was last modified: April 30, 2023 at 4:22 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(April 30, 2023 at 3:24 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(April 30, 2023 at 2:15 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: not if the societal convention in force expects the 12 year old female to assume substantially similar responsibilities as 25 year old females.
I was thinking specifically of Jewish societies. A girl becomes bat mitzvah at the age of 12. At that point, she is able to ‘participate in all areas of Jewish community life to the same extent as adults’. Since marriage is an integral part of Jewish community life, I would expect you to have no objection to a man of 25 (or 40 or 70) years of age wedding and bedding a 12 year old girl.
Boru
if “participate in all areas of Jewish community life to the same extent as adults” is not just an empty recitation, but an actual fact in the jewish community, and the jewish community in question has not submitted to others laws as might be in force in any larger society of which they might be a part, then I would not think i can have any particular criticism of girls in that society having sex at 12 other than a general criticism of the tradition that girls of 12 participate in all aspect of community life.
