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.
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.