RE: Ben Shapiro vs Neil deGrasse Tyson: The WAR Over Transgender Issues
January 24, 2025 at 6:16 pm
(This post was last modified: January 24, 2025 at 6:17 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
It's a fun idea to play with, though. Let's say a person could be or was magically more mature at Xy+1d and a specific subject was going to reach their personal age of consent on 18y+1d day...but they married at the day their laws allowed, 18y. Ultimately, our age of consent laws boil down to culture and expedience. We're not comfortable as a nation setting it as low (or as high!) as that number may in fact be..either in general or on a case by case basis..and we don't feel like (or feel we have a responsibility to or duty of) clogging our system up with endless appeals to that effect.
The age of consent is what we say it is because it's what we say it is, the we in this case being the determining factor or truth-maker and regardless of what an individual or even a group of people in our society feel, believe, want, or in fact are.
The age of consent is what we say it is because it's what we say it is, the we in this case being the determining factor or truth-maker and regardless of what an individual or even a group of people in our society feel, believe, want, or in fact are.
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