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.
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.