11-28-2023, 02:58 PM
(11-25-2023, 08:52 AM)khaled1987 Wrote: Nah, age of minor is crime because minors can't give consent as they aren't developed enough cognitively.
So it isn't hypocritical tbh, more consistent.
The hypocritical is that older women won't held accountable when they have a relationship with older kids. A 14 years old boy and 25 years old girl would be source of jokes rather than disgusts and anger, even though it is equally wrong, at least under the laws.
That's not accurate. We regularly see stories where a female school teacher and an underage boy have consensual sex, and she goes to prison. One example is Mary Kay Letourneau. There are others.
In response to the whole discussion here, the issue is that age DOES matter, as far as judgment, so there is an age that's too young to give consent. And there's also the fact that teens need to have rules that protect them from making too-big mistakes borne from immaturity and impulsiveness. Statutory rape laws are aimed to keep predators at bay, and lock them up for preying on the "consent" of the immature.
The laws are the results of trying to determine a reasonable proper age that PROTECTS the young and vulnerable, while also not infringing on rational rights. So to say that the age should be "whatever I feel like it should be" is ridiculous.