Legal Age Of Consent For Sex.

Every time I check to see if you have updated your arguments, it makes me want to run my head into the wall because you have barely made a single argument. You have told me a billion times to open a book about law to see the truth in your arguments, however I think you should heed your own advice. Every time you make an example of how horrible it is for a minor to engage in a sexual act you talk about someone being 12 or 13. Raising the age of consent does not really not change anything for those who are 12 or 13 because the minimum age of consent is 16 in most states in the US anyway. What I am trying to say is that IT IS ILLEGAL FOR 12 YEAR OLDS TO HAVE SEX WITH ADULTS NOW ANYWAY which again means it is pointless to raise the age. Here is the website that has the age for every state in the US (http://www.actwin.com...) You have also conceeded my main argument that raising concent laws have repricussions for more than those who are adults having sex with pre-teens. In my last post I said: "but what happens to someone who is 18 and someone who is almost 18 who has sex? According to your interpretation taht would be statutory rape because one is of consentual age and the other is not. I believe this is a ludicrous distinction, because as soon as you turn 18 the maturity gene doesnt magically turn on in your head, you can be more mature at a young age, which is another one of my arguments that you conceede." This conceeded argument hurts you in two ways. First, it shows that there is little difference in maturity between 17 and 18 year olds which is who the law would effect the most. Next, you spend more time simply stating that this is not a debate about education that it is about the legal age of concent. However you conceed how I link the two arguments together. Again, for the third post in a row, the conceeded link between the two is your idea of "maturity or responsibility." You also conceed the clarification in my last post, that " Your solution of rasing the age is merely a constructed straw man trying to divert education away from the real issue. I will remind you of what I said before: We tell our children that you shouldnt have sex until they are married, nothing but abstinence is preeched to the youth. I believe a better form of education that assists those who do wish to engage in sex would have numerous benefits, because they would know how to have safer sex, which would alleviate some of the "mistakes" or "problems" that come from sex." Finally, you say parents should educate their children. This is something I agree with you 100% However, it will never happen. The education should be in the home argument is something that has put sex education efforts back considerably. I believe educating the minors makes them more mature. The final concession I will cut and paste from above highlights your rebellion argument. You say kids will rebel, which is a stupid statement to make on your side of the debate. You have conceeded from both of my posts that raising the age means more minors will engage in the process. Here is the logic behind that: ""I believe raising the age would only result in more minors having sex, which may seem to make things worse in your eyes. This is empirically proven when both the age to drink and smoke have been raised. These ages go up, and more minors engage in these activities to rebel. And if minors are not responsible enough to say yes to sex, whats next? Do we take their ability to drive away? Maybe they are not responsible enough to drive, because that could threaten lives of others." You say statistically minors are irresponsible, but there is no warrant to that, it is impossible to use statistics to evaluate someones psychological condition using a subjective means of evaluating maturity. Also, theories of risk homeostasis and the examples I used above prove that when raising an age or making an activity harder to access people are more likely to partake, which means you still run the risk of increasing sex." You say that it will happen because they want attention from adults, however it is because they want to engage in a risky behavior, much like you say I should open a book on law, you should look into theories of psychology and sociology and look at risk homeostasis. In the end, I believe you have hardly answered any of my arguments, and you use a means test "maturity" which is subjective and impossible to measure responsibility, whcih is an impossible standard. It is for the reasons I state above, and the lack of you really answering my arguments that I should win.