Controversial Ideas

We have tens of thousands of 22 and 24 year old cops, nurses, army officers, managers, drivers, etc

but people claim their underdeveloped brains can't make rational decisions.

It's absurd :-D :-D :-D

Statistically poverty, substance abuse, and dysfunctional families often correlate. Domestic abuse is in the mix too. No one can isolate one single cause, because the world doesn't work in the oversimplified way we'd like it to.

Imagine you're a girl in a poor abusive household. There's really not much you can do but pray for a better future. Then you hit puberty, and you become sexually attractive to the men in town. This may be the first power you have ever had.

Some peeps are endowed with the power to physically or psychologically dominate their peers with implied threats of violence. Others are gifted with natural leadership abilities. But not all. Then there's a group that is simply pretty and sexy.

If you are this poor young woman from an abusive family, and by chance, nature gives you a sexy body that men like, why wouldn't you start flirting with a man you treats you nicely and makes you feel loved? And wouldn't it be even better if the man had a job and a car?

Your way to get away from your hellish home on a Saturday night may literally be the vehicle owned by your new boyfriend, but your ticket to a better life could definitely seem like a serious relationship with a somewhat older man.

Young adults (aka teens) from poor families tend to have more unplanned pregnancies than their peers from rich families. There are many possible reasons for that. Better access to contraception being the most obvious one.

Young adults (aka teens) from rich families also have much better access to options for terminating an unplanned pregnancy than their poor counterparts. So statistically teenage mothers tend to be much less wealthy than older first time mothers.

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There was a famous study done by Darroch in the 90s. (see above) It shows a lot of what I have outlined here. When California Gov Gray Davis saw the study, however, he ignored all the relevant data, and decided that the CAUSE of all these problems was statutory rape.

His plan was to get the cops & prosecutors to put more of the boyfriends with jobs & cars in prison as a way to solve the teen pregnancy problem. This was, of course, illogical to the point of batshit crazy. Smart people at the time pointed that out.

https://guttmacher.org/journals/psrh/1996/01/can-statutory-rape-laws-be-effective-preventing-adolescent-pregnancy

So people in the 90s screwed up. Big deal. Who cares?

The main issue here, is that Gov Davis's batshit stupid thinking went mainstream, and dominates our discourse to this day. Big TV personalities like Oprah picked it up and spread it generously.

The goofy myth based on contorted logic took on a life of its own. The general public, who never spend a lot of time digging into the research or thinking things thru, started to believe that the causation runs opposite to the reality.

That is to say, people now believe that teenage women dating men 10 years older than them causes them to be poor and show the symptoms of an abuse victim.

The obvious reality is that poverty and dysfunction is what led them to choose that partner in the first place.

Criminalizing a young woman's choice of boyfriend isn't the way to make her life happy and healthy. Incarcerating the father of a young woman's baby is one of the worst things you can do to her and her infant. We need to bring a little common sense back to this discussion.

When the printing press was invented it unleashed an information revolution. Lot's of people gained access to lots of new ideas. It freaked a lot of people out. Information spreading like that was dangerous. It sparked the Reformation, and the Counter-Reformation, which included long bloody wars. Arguably the beginning of the Renaissance. Change scares people. Instability is very worrying. Conspiracy theories thrive in an environment like that. The result was the famous witch trials.

When the internet was invented it unleashed an information revolution. Lot's of people gained access to lots of new ideas. It freaked a lot of people out. Information spreading like that was dangerous. Change scares people. Instability is very worrying. Conspiracy theories thrive in an environment like that. QAnon, massive freak-outs about pedophiles, flat-earthers, idiots eating horse deworming paste.

The parallels are clear. Today peeps scream about wanting to lynch anyone who dares to date anyone younger than them. They need no evidence. Just like nobody needed evidence to know a witch needed to be executed. In times of great change people look for a scapegoat. Then it was alleged witches. Now it's alleged pedophiles.

Nazi scientists used to poke around people's brains looking for ways to claim that dark-skinned people are inferior and justify treating them like dirt.

Today our scientists are poking around people's brains looking for ways to claim that teenagers are inferior and justify treating them like dirt.

Child beauty contests are completely harmless. Certainly no more damaging than the competitive sports we let, encourage, and sometimes force them to do. People, however, need to do tons of virtue signalling, so they scream about the terrible "sexualization" going on there, when it is in fact just some kids playing dress up, one of the most natural games children play.

When the "crime" harms no one, but the taboo is so strict that the punishment has to be brutal and extreme.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=eWPtAJS1kro .

Humans are reproducing like rats. There are already 8 BILLION of us and soon there'll be another 4 BILLION on top of that.

You need to be totally BATSHIT crazy to believe there's a "fertility crisis" 😀😀😀

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We are in the middle of a huge #PuritanRevival

It's all around us. Young people condemning everything as gross or cringe, getting the ick, railing against male gaze, or pissed off about "sexualization"

Some openly want to reverse the sexual revolution. Others want to ban sex to "protect" people from evil power dynamics. Either way the #Puritans are back and strong as hell.

Nothing significant changes in our brains in our 20s.

All this talk of "fully developed at 25" is ridiculous bullshit. Even if it were true, it wouldn't mean that people below that age are mentally incompetent.

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/2114210

> Ever wonder why our young people are incompetent and depressed? > > We raised the age to "protect" them.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/3618558

> "sexualization" is 100% bullshit > > The entire concept is crap. Like totally absurd. > > Mandrills have colorful noses. We have beards and boobs. Exactly the same function. We are sexual. We have sexual bodies with sexual body parts. > > #Monkey #Peacock #Sex #Sexual #Sexy #Hot #Cute