Delta4Embassy
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Now, before your heads explode or you slip and fall salivating let me explain the complete question.
Seeing only the title of this thread, your heartrate likely quickened, the blood in your body flowed around faster, your adrenaline began to pump and you basicly became very excited. But why?
Why are people's reaction to questions of this type so predictable? Is the answer objectively and irrefutably known? Is the answer, "because it's bad." or "because it's illegal." or something else?
If we read a news headline about some adult getting busted for having sex with a minor most of us start imagining ways to execute or violently punish the perpetrator. But does that same reaction occur if we read a headline about a typical New York City mugging, or robbery, or petty theft? Probably not if only because those don't often become headlines at all. Did any of us ever imagine creative ways to execute a purse-snatcher?
If a majority of people in the USA are religious, and of those the majority is some sort of Christian, then the majority should have no objections whatsoever to adults and children having sex together. In fact, while the Bible forbids many things, it seems to have forgotten about adults and children having sex. In Jewish tradition, and upheld through the centuries, the age at which a Jewish boy can consent to marriage (and thus sex) is 13, and girls at 12. If we run with the narrative this means a Jew centuries old (Moses lived to be 800) can marry a girl of 12.
While many things upset God, none do so more than robbery (say theft with violence.) This angers God so much He wiped out every living thing on the planet except for Noah, his family, and some animals. But there are numerous passages condoning rape, enslavement of girls, and even murder of girls and boys of "children's" ages. But no where does it say you can't have sex with them.
So why is the public reaction to headlines about adult-child sex such a hot button if most are of a religion that doesn't have a problem with that? And if not a person who believes in gods, many of us still have a problem with it. But in our case, why?
Some scientists have pointed out that our brains don't finish maturing and developing until we're in our 20s. But if we use that fact as the basis for our objections, then the age for sexual consent should be 20-25. And a problem with it is this: if we use mental maturity and brain development, what about the very old and neurlogically impaired, what about mentally handicapped people, and others who simply exhibit lower-than-chronological-aged IQs? Should you have some minimum IQ before you're granted certain legal rights? And then of course is the problem with how we're letting 'mentally impaired' people drive at 16.
The fact remains we have an irrational, almost automatic, and predictable response to adults and children having sex together. Whether they did or not, the merest possibility is enough to set our reaction in motion.
We only do things we've been taught to do, or learned to do on our own, have been conditioned to do, or have an instinctual impetus for doing. We learn best and the most by imitation. As such we learn how to speak listening to parents speak, and how to do various things by watching and imitating/repeating them. If people's reactions to certain things are easily predictable isn't it that they've been conditioned to do them and thus are predictable?
Any human easy to predict is easy to manipulate. That's not a good thing. Think about it. This wasn't about whether adults having sex with kids is bad. It was about how you react to it and other questions.
Seeing only the title of this thread, your heartrate likely quickened, the blood in your body flowed around faster, your adrenaline began to pump and you basicly became very excited. But why?
Why are people's reaction to questions of this type so predictable? Is the answer objectively and irrefutably known? Is the answer, "because it's bad." or "because it's illegal." or something else?
If we read a news headline about some adult getting busted for having sex with a minor most of us start imagining ways to execute or violently punish the perpetrator. But does that same reaction occur if we read a headline about a typical New York City mugging, or robbery, or petty theft? Probably not if only because those don't often become headlines at all. Did any of us ever imagine creative ways to execute a purse-snatcher?
If a majority of people in the USA are religious, and of those the majority is some sort of Christian, then the majority should have no objections whatsoever to adults and children having sex together. In fact, while the Bible forbids many things, it seems to have forgotten about adults and children having sex. In Jewish tradition, and upheld through the centuries, the age at which a Jewish boy can consent to marriage (and thus sex) is 13, and girls at 12. If we run with the narrative this means a Jew centuries old (Moses lived to be 800) can marry a girl of 12.
While many things upset God, none do so more than robbery (say theft with violence.) This angers God so much He wiped out every living thing on the planet except for Noah, his family, and some animals. But there are numerous passages condoning rape, enslavement of girls, and even murder of girls and boys of "children's" ages. But no where does it say you can't have sex with them.
So why is the public reaction to headlines about adult-child sex such a hot button if most are of a religion that doesn't have a problem with that? And if not a person who believes in gods, many of us still have a problem with it. But in our case, why?
Some scientists have pointed out that our brains don't finish maturing and developing until we're in our 20s. But if we use that fact as the basis for our objections, then the age for sexual consent should be 20-25. And a problem with it is this: if we use mental maturity and brain development, what about the very old and neurlogically impaired, what about mentally handicapped people, and others who simply exhibit lower-than-chronological-aged IQs? Should you have some minimum IQ before you're granted certain legal rights? And then of course is the problem with how we're letting 'mentally impaired' people drive at 16.
The fact remains we have an irrational, almost automatic, and predictable response to adults and children having sex together. Whether they did or not, the merest possibility is enough to set our reaction in motion.
We only do things we've been taught to do, or learned to do on our own, have been conditioned to do, or have an instinctual impetus for doing. We learn best and the most by imitation. As such we learn how to speak listening to parents speak, and how to do various things by watching and imitating/repeating them. If people's reactions to certain things are easily predictable isn't it that they've been conditioned to do them and thus are predictable?
Any human easy to predict is easy to manipulate. That's not a good thing. Think about it. This wasn't about whether adults having sex with kids is bad. It was about how you react to it and other questions.
