I mean, it's Raddle. That place has always been pretty shit with toxic views, this doesn't necessarily surprise me tbh.
I used it for about 3 days, until there was a post on the front page with a bunch of comments arguing incest is morally ok. Kinda put me off.
Thank goodness I left raddle
apparently when i signed up i thought lemmy was the toxic one, not raddle
slight miscalculation
I'm getting more secure in my instance choice all the time
a+ username would giggle quietly to myself again
If you like the name, make sure you check out the profile pic
Wow I had a whole crisis for creating the 196 on blahaj.zone because I thought it would move traffic away from the raddle. Now I am glad it moved traffic.
Imagine using radd(l)e
I just checked the comments... shit's wild down there holy shit
I just looked it up for my country and the law is pretty complex but here's what I gathered
- 16 is the age of consent for sexual activity
- romeo-and-juliet laws for 14 and 15 year olds (up to 5 years their senior, imo this is too much)
- 16 and 17 year olds cannot consent if there is any power dynamic
- 18 is the age of consent for pornography
Imo it should probably be that the age of consent is 18, with 14-17 year olds under romeo-and-juliet laws (and maybe like 3 or 4 years their senior). High school is just such a different stage of life, and social acceptance into adulthood is at 18 anyway (though I personally didn't feel like an adult till I was 21)
Seems like a whole bunch of pedos downvoting
It is really dumb to make it a hard cutoff in the first place. Colorado uses a system in which someone who is 15 can consent to sex with someone no older than 18. At 16 you can date consent with someone up to age at 19, and at 17 up to age 20. At age 18, people are considered adults and there is no longer an age limit to consent.
It is wholly necessary to protect children from sexual predators using age of consent laws. At the same time, it is a bit ridiculous to pretend that people in their teens don’t have sexual relationships with one another, and the law ought to reflect that. I certainly don’t feel that an 18-year-old should be considered a criminal for dating a 17-year-old, anyway.
Appealing to majority is a bad way to make an argument. The age of consent in America shouldn't be 16 because it is in other countries, like my own, the UK, but because in its own right a human of age 16 is mature enough to make their own decisions about this.
How exactly are they mature enough? By what standard?
For the record, each US state sets the age of consent. 16 is the age in many states
