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Topic History of: Dating site 19 ends up being 12
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Randall |
holocaust21 wrote:
Have we not created a society full of young people who's growth has been stunted?
What we have is an increasing number of children over the age of 18. These are people who have never matured emotionally and mentally into adults, because they've not been guided into, and equipped for, adult life.
They've been indoctrinated that their failure effectively to meet the inevitable challenges of life is the result of someone else abusing, oppressing or discriminating against, them.
You make a fair point about past times when people went out to work, or war, or started families earlier. These things expose people to challenges with significant (or indeed ultimate) costs of failure. So there were more and greater imperatives to strive to improve one's circumstances and oneself: something that seems to have fallen out of fashion lately. |
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holocaust21 |
25 is getting rather high to set the age of consent, don't you think JK? Everyone seems very prepared to say "our young people aren't mature enough, let's raise the age of consent, raise the school leaving age etc etc" but few seem prepared to ask "hold on a minute, 100 years ago what we now think of as little children were working in fields and raising families? Have we not created a society full of young people who's growth has been stunted?". I saw on the David Bowie articles posted on the other thread some of the Mail commentators were saying stuff like "ah, yes, well sex at 15 was OK then because we were all more mature! But kids these days aren't so it should be banned", which seems like a rather upside down way to look at it. If our kids aren't as mature then we should be worried about that, and perhaps lowering or abolishing the AOC is one way to help them mature faster, amongst, I suspect, many other sorely needed reforms that no one can be bothered to even contemplate let alone action. |
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honey!oh sugar sugar. |
Silent Minority wrote:
Age of consent?
Guilty of murder at ten...but cannot consent to sex until sixteen?
Some countries have realised this, and taken steps as a result... Doctor King has written about this before...but the simplified headline grabbing press have made logic in any approach impossible.
I am horrified that small children can be tried as adults for sexual crime and murder.
Without dehumanising them by absolving them of all responsibility for their actions, (which I think we do a bit) it must be possible to recognise the very different mental state and maturity? |
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Silent Minority |
Age of consent?
Guilty of murder at ten...but cannot consent to sex until sixteen?
Some countries have realised this, and taken steps as a result... Doctor King has written about this before...but the simplified headline grabbing press have made logic in any approach impossible. |
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Randall |
JK2006 wrote:
Knife crime - predominantly by the very young - only stops when children can be educated that it's wrong.
Likewise with risky sexual behaviour, dangerous driving, drug abuse etc etc etc.
You extend my last point, JK. It's education that is the best means to guide youngsters to a successful sex life (whatever that means for them). NOT punishing another person. |
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