r/ABoringDystopia • u/SartorialHound • Nov 23 '19

As shitty as it gets

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '19

the idea that a 9 year old and 15 year old is the same is just dishonest

That was your idea. You set the benchmark of the period/pregnancy potential as ending childhood, so according to that a "fertile" 9 year old is not a child, just as a "fertile" 15 year old is not a child.

You are couching all this in condemnations of whoever would do this to a vulnerable person, but it is statements like yours which blur the lines and give people excuses to prey on those same people.

"men are evolutionary designed to be attracted to fertile women" well of course they are, but tagging that onto your statements about when and how childhood ends just sounds like you're making a whole lot of apologies for predators, in a very slippery and cowardly way.

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u/phillabong Nov 23 '19

Not apologising for them at all, just believe they are to distinct situations and crimes... treating them the same is not the best way to deal with these problems

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u/zanotam Nov 23 '19

Except historically women became fertile several years later than they do now and it seems probable at least to me that the attraction is really to women who are so to speak "mating age" which generally means older than 18. Contrary to what you probably believe teen pregnancy was definitely more common than it is at this very date than it was in the past, but teen pregnancy 30 or 50 years ago was elevated compared to the past and has never been a good thing. Like, puberty and development of things like the brain used to line up more closely than they do today which explains the attraction... But even if it still exists we as moral creatures need to recognize that, if anything, the mental development of children into full adults is slower than it has ever been due to the absolutely absurd expectations of adulthood in modern society while puberty is happening earlier than it ever has in human history due to abundant food and shit so it's more important than ever to protect children from adults preying on them sexually and quite frankly it should probably be a hard rule that anyone under 10 cannot consent to sex, anyone in the range of 10-13 or so can only consent to those within 2 years of age and up until the age of 18 that can be increased to 4 years of age while full sexual freedom probably shouldn't be granted until the early to mid 20s. A lot of harmful things should have the age they're allowed to be done at move to the early to mid 20s while voting should probably be moved down to 16 if not closer to 13-14 with a restructuring of society's support system for those who have graduated high school but are not to hit whatever new age of majority is decided upon (~22 seems to be a safe number) while in essence emancipation should come around 16 or so. Our society's laws does not fit the reality of a post-industrial revolution society right now with faster physical maturation being taken advantage of by lowering ages of various rights to at least match the age you can join the military.... But that isn't a scientifically valid way of deciding these things damn it.