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Topic	Do you think the age of consent should be lowered?
COVxy 12/28/17 7:27:07 PM #208:	Zodd3224 posted... You shouldnt have to prove coercion when it is a full grown 25+ adult having sex with someone still in high school. Its wrong. You should when the best multivariate fit of brain functional organization with age looks like this: Where adults a near indistinguishable from teens cross-sectionally. Truth is that brain development is highly variable across people, and there are likely teens who can consent as much as your average college student can. If it's a moralistic stance as you are putting it, then fine, but you accept that it is inherently irrational. If you are talking about capability of consent as a rationalization, however, then we're in this territory where we're actually looking at how well age predicts these things. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] <cite>COVxy posted [p:893031303] in Do you thi... [t:76144526]...</cite> <quote><cite>Zodd3224 posted...</cite> <quote>You shouldnt have to prove coercion when it is a full grown 25+ adult having sex with someone still in high school. Its wrong. </quote> You should when the best multivariate fit of brain functional organization with age looks like this: Where adults a near indistinguishable from teens cross-sectionally. Truth is that brain development is highly variable across people, and there are likely teens who can consent as much as your average college student can. If it's a moralistic stance as you are putting it, then fine, but you accept that it is inherently irrational. If you are talking about capability of consent as a rationalization, however, then we're in this territory where we're actually looking at how well age predicts these things. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])]</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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