babies and teens are all capable to consent, the only thing that needs to change according to age is the action

[FairBlueLove]

MapGuy45657, interesting! I also tend to have this evolutionary-first approach.

It's also interesting to notice that evolution, at least until now, is mostly selecting for people NOT to be conscious of the evolutionary origin of their behavior.

Yeah most people simply don't want or don't have the capacity to really accept okay, I'm literally a reverse engineerable sex computer from replicator logic, my theories of human behavior have to not violate these axioms. It's hard to find solid epistemology. I'm gald to see you see the coherence of my thought. Do you have a theory of your own?

With so many theories already out there, I don't formulate my own; instead, I weigh the existing ones to form an opinion. My initial epiphany came after reading "The Selfish Gene", leading me to believe that all human experience is driven by gene survival. But learning about the "Baldwin effect", a feedback loop where culture influences natural selection, shattered that simplicity. I now realize the reality is far more nuanced and complex...

To keep this thread focused, you're welcome to start a new thread to carry on this interesting conversation.

[sovereign]

You have to ask why do adults desire sex with juveniles, and why do they desire this every single generation, for many many many generations. It's not random, it has to be naturally selected. All stable recurring sexual preferences are caused by DNA encoding which evolved, there's no alternative way to explain them under materialism. Okay so if it's naturally selected it's encoded in sexual preference architecture, so adults evolved to do that. That means sexually engaging with them leads to higher probabilities of gene copied in the future for the adult. That implies gene copies for the juveniles into the future, so juveniles co-evolve to sexually engage with adults. Somehow by sexually engaging early you receive an evolutionary advantage, more gene copies. Now the contestation is kids can't consent. They can't consent, but they evolved to engage in the activity, that is to say they specifically have brains and neurologies that were specifically selected to do that. And here we see the incoherence of the lack of consent argument, it's in direct contradiction with Biological reality.
The whole they can't consent thing is just the way sexual taboo enforcement is manifesting currently. People evolved to detect taboo displays and deploy costs. Pedophilia/hebephilia taboo exists not because people are harmed, or we need to prevent harm, it's because blocking your sexual competetors (other people) from access to high fertility potential into the future advantages the odds of you replicating into the future, so humans evolve to block you from this sexual access. They need to justify this with a story, this is the modern version of that story. It's just a story, it's not even the cause of their actions against you.

What a wonderful post which shows deep thought, reflexion, maturity and intellectual sovereignty. It's a joy to read here.