I’m broadly conservative, but neoreactionary on a few select things—specifically child rights and assisted suicide.
child rights: Tradition is that age of consent is pegged to our best ascertainment of puberty. I reckon with advances in science, that could become a civil issue so that plaintiff’s could accuse perpetrators of rape due to inability to consent based on pre-pubescence.
I reckon that age for voting and such should also be lowered to the age of consent after a suitable transition period in which children are no longer expected to be little idiots.
I reckon the threat of pedophilles abusing this system is mostly imaginary.One would imagine that the inefficiencies in this system, with socially non-taboo ‘romeo juliet’ cases where an ‘abuser’ is say 1 or 2 years older than a ‘unconsentable’ young person will become more prevalent and young people will be less inclined to consent to sexual relations with ‘predators’ anyway.
Additionally, it is important to recognise that some people don’t undergo puberty at all, or do so very late. These such people might be 20, and would be not able to consent if you frame the issue as a matter of puberty. Similarly, someone can be 20 and too ignorant to be able to consent to what’s good for them either way. I reckon, if for any reason its ascertainable that someone couldn’t have been expected by the counterparty to consent in good faith, that’s the way to go.
Also interesting fact -
“High rates of child mortality also meant that parents emotionally distanced themselves from their children” (prior to the 18th Century) Wikipedia
I’m broadly conservative, but neoreactionary on a few select things—specifically child rights and assisted suicide.
child rights: Tradition is that age of consent is pegged to our best ascertainment of puberty. I reckon with advances in science, that could become a civil issue so that plaintiff’s could accuse perpetrators of rape due to inability to consent based on pre-pubescence.
I reckon that age for voting and such should also be lowered to the age of consent after a suitable transition period in which children are no longer expected to be little idiots.
I reckon the threat of pedophilles abusing this system is mostly imaginary.One would imagine that the inefficiencies in this system, with socially non-taboo ‘romeo juliet’ cases where an ‘abuser’ is say 1 or 2 years older than a ‘unconsentable’ young person will become more prevalent and young people will be less inclined to consent to sexual relations with ‘predators’ anyway.
Additionally, it is important to recognise that some people don’t undergo puberty at all, or do so very late. These such people might be 20, and would be not able to consent if you frame the issue as a matter of puberty. Similarly, someone can be 20 and too ignorant to be able to consent to what’s good for them either way. I reckon, if for any reason its ascertainable that someone couldn’t have been expected by the counterparty to consent in good faith, that’s the way to go.
Also interesting fact -