I'm going to move into a far-far-right voluntary neighborhood where everyone is contractually obligated to be an extremist prude that would make Queen Victoria seem like a whore in comparison.
I'm not sure about what other thinks but my answer to that is that children cannot consent. Cannot consent to many things, sex being one of them.
It takes away from their freedom but can you call it freedom if you are not as rational as you could be to make the choice? Of course this can be applied to non-children so we need to be careful.
Basically 18. The age of consent is an age that we have agreed on where we think that people have generally gotten all grown up. Since it is difficult to write into the law how to judge things on a case by case basis, we need have a straight up age.
Unfortunately it means some people will fall through the cracks who we would not consider developed enough and capable of consent.
We all have many points of governance in our lives such as embarrassment and ambition and the age of consent is something that can be built into a society. Since the point of a society is to keep men civilised.
Like all standards it is arbitrary, but very much needed.
There should be means of achieving earlier emancipation from one's parents / guardians, or for that emancipation to be delayed after 18 in case of a mental handicap, but there should still be a default.
An AnCap is anyone who is willing to abide by the Non-Aggression Principle.
It includes social conservatives who are willing to set their rules on a non-governmental level. In practice social conservatism would proliferate quite well under NAP, because being rational about family and finances goes hand-in-hand.
So the question is, why do you need Federal Government to restrict child prostitution? Or maybe you need World Government? I think local governance can handle that just fine.
Most people care about child safety, so free market child protection charities would be very well funded, and far more efficient than the state.
Jo Jorgensen said it best "Prostitution is basically capitalism and sex, which of these two are you against? I'm for both"
Selling is legal, fucking is legal. So why isnt selling fucking legal?
As long as it's not coerced. A lot of it is coerced unfortunately, but the state criminalizing it altogether doesn't help, it incentivizes it.
Everything is permitted as long as it doesn't violate the NAP.
I think that prostitution is extremely immoral but I would not be for the government to outlaw it.
I'm going to move into a far-far-right voluntary neighborhood where everyone is contractually obligated to be an extremist prude that would make Queen Victoria seem like a whore in comparison.
Yup, I've audiobooked pretty much everything by Neal Stephenson. Good stuff.
I'm not sure about what other thinks but my answer to that is that children cannot consent. Cannot consent to many things, sex being one of them. It takes away from their freedom but can you call it freedom if you are not as rational as you could be to make the choice? Of course this can be applied to non-children so we need to be careful.
What are your opinions about age of consent? What is the age of consent? What should it be?
Basically 18. The age of consent is an age that we have agreed on where we think that people have generally gotten all grown up. Since it is difficult to write into the law how to judge things on a case by case basis, we need have a straight up age. Unfortunately it means some people will fall through the cracks who we would not consider developed enough and capable of consent.
We all have many points of governance in our lives such as embarrassment and ambition and the age of consent is something that can be built into a society. Since the point of a society is to keep men civilised.
18 years.
That's 568,024,668 seconds.
29.2 Venus years, etc.
Like all standards it is arbitrary, but very much needed.
There should be means of achieving earlier emancipation from one's parents / guardians, or for that emancipation to be delayed after 18 in case of a mental handicap, but there should still be a default.
An AnCap is anyone who is willing to abide by the Non-Aggression Principle.
It includes social conservatives who are willing to set their rules on a non-governmental level. In practice social conservatism would proliferate quite well under NAP, because being rational about family and finances goes hand-in-hand.
So the question is, why do you need Federal Government to restrict child prostitution? Or maybe you need World Government? I think local governance can handle that just fine.
Most people care about child safety, so free market child protection charities would be very well funded, and far more efficient than the state.