07-28-2022, 09:55 AM
These kind of questions where people look to an impersonal state government made up of strangers hundreds of miles away from the people it rules over legislating one-size-fits-all rules about things like this are good illustrations of why that's no way to answer these questions.
Take those state laws out of the picture, and when people stop deferring to "the law" (which here just means the make believe laws legislated by those governments) and start developing localized communities where people share cultural mores, know one another, have an understanding of who is responsible for what kids, and where senses of honor and shame play their proper roles.
The dictum, "it takes a village to raise a child," has been totally bastardized by the left, because they redefine the word "village" to mean the entire country under the rule of distant regime. But if you take the word "village" to mean what the word really means, that very same slogan totally undermines all the policies of the left, because everything they do destroys and disempowers the small local communities that are signified by the word "village" and replaces them with the opposite.
I don't like the idea of setting a specific number of an age of consent that's the same for everyone. But if we have to have that, then 17 is setting it too old.
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