Argue about the age of consent while pretending it's about Andrew Tate

[Ser Prize]

So at the age of 18 a magical switch gets flipped in your brain that makes you finally magically capable of understanding what sex and consent are, but until then you're just an innocent toddler wholly incapable of understanding how those things work? I don't think anyone actually believes this but a lot of people will just run with it out of fear that they will look like pedophiles if they disagree. Because, as I joked about in an earlier post, ethics and morals can sometimes be conveniently boiled down to "whatever the law says" until the law disagrees with them on something else.

I do not believe for a second that 16 and 17 year olds are these innocent little beings that can't understand how human reproduction works and are wholly incapable of consenting to sex. Charles XII of Sweden was capable of leading an entire nation through war and empire at the age of 15 but 17 Y/Os are too stupid to know how sex works and if they're being taken advantage of? It just seems like a preposterous notion on its face and it really does reek of "the creeping infantalization of young adults" as @Ser Prize said in an earlier post.

It's like the "SHE WAS 17 YEARS 365 DAYS AND 23 HOURS OLD YOU SICK FUCK" meme. I understand using age to loosely gauge maturity but at 17 and 18 I'd say most people know enough to have adult agency. But we keep treating them like children these days, to the point it extends as far as early twenties. It's insanity.

 

[Spud]

In terms of high schoolers trading nudes

We aren't talking about high schoolers here. Carson is a legal adult whilst the one he was trying to get nudes of was underage