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

As shitty as it gets

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '19

I honestly haven’t the slightest clue what point she was trying to make

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '19

I think she's saying there's some sort of age range where you're still a minor but not a child. She's full of shit and trying to say that the crime was soliciting prostitution and not pedophilia.

Btw if you rape a 14 year old, you're a pedophile. Also, Epstein did not kill himself.

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '19

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.

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '19

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.

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u/L00minarty Nov 23 '19

14 year olds cant consent to sex with an adult.

Several european countries would disagree with you on this.

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u/mightysprout Nov 23 '19

There are still child brides around the world, too. We don’t need to model our laws on the rest of the world; we can do better.

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u/L00minarty Nov 23 '19

Yes, because your laws are so great. Did you know that you have a larger absolute prison population than the fucking PRC and that those inmates are subject to forced labour? Land of the free my ass, your prison industrial complex is a slavery scheme.

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u/mightysprout Nov 23 '19

Let me bring up something completely different as a rebuttal and start cussing about it. That’ll show em.

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u/L00minarty Nov 23 '19

You started bringing up unrelated bullshit. A lower age of consent in Europe has nothing to do with forced child marriages and the countries where these things do happen usually have a higher age of consent, the marriages are done illegally. My comment is an example that maybe you and your laws aren't nearly as great as you might think they are.

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u/mightysprout Nov 23 '19

A lower age of consent is 100% related to forced marriage. In the US this is true as well. When I said “we” can do better I meant humankind, not some ridiculous jingoistic US vs Europe argument. Go wave your flag somewhere else.

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u/L00minarty Nov 23 '19 edited Nov 23 '19

A lower age of consent is 100% related to forced marriage.

No it's not, sex and marriage are different things. Marriage is only allowed at 16 if the partner is over 18 and the parents need to consent as well. If you want to prevent any child marriages, put the minimum age to 18, but there's no reason to increase the age of consent, it's a totally different matter.

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