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The problem is, whether there's contact or not, the expectation is that adults aren't supposed to interact in any way with kids not their own, unless they're in a job where it's required. In western society it's considered inappropriate for you to say a friendly hello to an unrelated child as you ...

The biggest reason that youth rights activists are so difficult with sexuality is that they're trying too hard to avoid appearing as predatory. It's extremely easy to take a big list of rights that youth should have — "The right to vote; the right to drive; the right to choose their education; the ...

It is more socially acceptable to hate children than it is to talk of them in a positive light.
Additionally, "pedophiles" are one of the few groups that is completely socially acceptable to both threaten them with harm and wish the worst upon them


In my opinion, a significant cause of people's ...

Do you think a five year old can consent to sex and why do you thats possible do you hold this view?


Yes. For the same reason five year olds can "consent" to getting in a car, which is objectively the most dangerous place for them to be at any given time in most of Europe and America given that ...

I try to not judge (at least not in text). Like Fragment said, a lot of young people instinctively act older online due to the way young people are treated. Even when I was a kid on the internet I'd pretend I was 16+ for a while, because admitting you're younger always drew some sort of bullying ...

I think hypotheticals like this help outline the issue with punishing consensual AMSC to begin with, even from a perspective where it's wrong. Even if the minor is uncomfortable and wants it to stop, often they still value the relationship with the older person and are destroyed when it's forcefully ...

I think looking back, the realization of the hypocritical nature of the culture that western society has towards 'protecting' youth while simultaneously harming them is what initially cemented my position against an AoC — to realize that few people claiming that AMSC is ethically and morally wrong ...

Mixing of youth and adults would benefit community building substantially, and offer young people opportunities to build support networks external to their immediate family.

A lot of western social problems can be attributed to the strict separation between under 18s and adults — how people grow ...

I've said this before, but it's absolutely shocking that so many so-called rational thinkers in society can't put two and two together here. When the soul is used as a primary argument towards the criminalization of something, you'd think more people would slow down and go, 'Hey, wait a minute...'

Yes, it's done on purpose. When I hear someone talking about a '17-year-old child ,'


It's all a manipulation of feelings.

This article from the BBC here talks about a 17 year old child that was stabbed. This different article from the BBC talks about a 17 year old man that threatened to stab ...