Black Teen Lynched In North Carolina...Was In IR relationship

Nope, it still wouldn't be okay. College or high school, no 17 year old is mature enough to be in a relationship with anyone in their 30s. Or even someone in their late 20s, for that matter.

Legal or not, it's still skeevy as fuck.

 

Yep. It all goes back to maturity. Plus I'd be scratching my head as to why someone in their 40s wouldn't be able to relate romantically to someone closer to their own age, or at least someone old enough to drink.

 

Lol pretty much every state has a registry for that sort of behavior.

 

There was actually a guy at work who got locked up over that

He already had a legit girl but decided to mess with another girl who was underage

I'd never knowingly break the law like that, but I am aware of the different consent laws nationwide/globally and it makes me wonder why they're all different

Drug laws do the same to me..hell all laws do the same because there's so much disparity and they become challenged/modified eventually when enough people decide to think for themselves instead of being followers

 

Age of consent laws in this country may be all different but they still exist for the same reasons, whether the age is as low as 16 or as high as 18.

Hell, a few years ago Mark Sanchez caught a lot of shit for sleeping with a 17 year old girl while he was 24. It took place in New Jersey where the age of consent is 16 so no laws were broken but it's still extra sketchy nasty as hell. When I was 24 there was no way in hell I'd even think about getting involved with a 17 year old. *shivers*

EDITED: Changed the age ranges from 13 to 17 to 16 to 18.

 

How can they exist for the 'same reasons' if they're all different

What, do people develop differently in Idaho than New York? How exactly do you quantify that?

 

For the same reasons that punishments vary from state to for a lot of other offenses: states get to determine how they enforce their laws. If shoplifting merchandise in an amount over $300 is a felony in one state but a misdemeanor in another, both of those states still have laws against shoplifting for the same reason: to deter people from stealing. Burglary statutes and punishments vary from state to state but every single state has a law against breaking into someone's house or place of business.

When it comes to age of consent, the fact that different states have different ages doesn't matter as much as why those laws exist to begin with: as a general rule our society considers people under a certain age to be unable to give consent to have sex. That underlying rationale applies to all of those laws even if all the states don't agree on what age a person reaches the age of majority.

 

the fact that u said "im aware of the consent laws...i never knowingly..."

says

 

exactly

 

Ok that shut me up lol

 

I'll give you this round my gender-confused friend

 

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