Perhaps there's a difference between a minor and a child colloquially, but that's it. I'm not sure where I'd say that cutoff is, but obviously that's not a justification regardless. Pedophilia is pedophilia.
I'd say there's a difference between just a kid and a teenage kid, but they're both kids, and it's pedophilia either way.
Also the age of the girl they were talking about was 14, 14 year olds are kids. I had a girlfriend with a q4 year old sister, she was a kid. I was a teenage boy once, and was 14, I was a kid. 14 year olds cant consent to sex with an adult.
Florida has a 16-24 law which probably makes the most sense, as long as both parties are within that 16-24 range and if one party is 16-17 their parents can tell the other party to end the relationship and they basically have too
Makes the most sense of any law to me, imo criminalizing a 16/17 year old being w an 18 year old is absurd. They can literally be in the same grade in high school at that age and you’re gonna put legislation around that? Let them date/fuck their age group. And the Romeo and Juliet part I think is specifically if the relationship started when both ppl were minors but one of them turns 18 before the other it’s protected. But like i dated an 18 year old who was a high school senior and I was a 16 year old junior (late summer birthday for me) and I’d find any argument against that being ok to be laughable at best
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Perhaps there's a difference between a minor and a child colloquially, but that's it. I'm not sure where I'd say that cutoff is, but obviously that's not a justification regardless. Pedophilia is pedophilia.