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Ah, so you dodged the rest, and you didn't even get the part that you addressed right! Nobody is discussing legalizing forced sex (or rape). So your argument is irrelevant.
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No, I didn't dodge anything. I told you that I didn't have time to answer you at that time. I'm home now and will address the rest of your bs.
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I see you come from a selfish group with no principle that is only interested in legislation that directly assists them. Otherwise, you would understand that people are capable of supporting legislation out of principle, even if it does not directly benefit them, in which case you would not make such assumptions as the one above.
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No principle? No principle is when someone advocates allowing children to decide to have sex with adults. A ten-year-old girl is not capable of understanding the long-term ramifications of sex with anyone, much less an adult. She can be "bought" by a predator with promises or she can be forced with threats but either way is wrong and shouldn't be allowed. Only a pervert would think otherwise.
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Well, that's precisely the debate, isn't it, Mrs. M? Should the state ban children from making certain decisions, based on "ageist" assumptions and generalizations, as if the children were the private property of the state? That is indeed the argument, but I don't see how restating that adds anything to the debate.
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Yes, the state should ban certain decisions, based on ageist assumptions and generalizations. It is up to adults to protect children and the laws help do that.
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A law doesn't state that something is "wrong," it states that something is "illegal." Furthermore, don't you think it would be possible for parents to take a middle ground, like maybe teach their kids not to have sex? What kind of a careless parent needs the government to protect their kids from having sex?
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Yeah, yeah, a law doesn't state that something's wrong. BFD. Wrong, illegal, whatever.
Don't you think that parents do try to teach their kids not to have sex? Do you believe that kids always listen? A smooth predator will lure a girl with promises of tomorrow in exchange for a sexual relationship that she's too young physically and mentally to understand. That's one reason why we need the laws. Another reason is it takes out that element of "consensual" sex, thus taking away a predator's defense of "she wanted it".
I truly hope you never have children of your own, especially daughters. I shudder to think of what would happen to them under your care.