The Cellar - View Single Post - They put a fucking 17 YEAR OLD in JAIL for this?!

Shawnee123 · 01-09-2007, 01:37 PM

Drawing a line seems to me to be exactly why the age is set at 18. The gov can't assess the "competency" or intellectual reasoning ability of every teenager who has sexual relations. If one of the participants is over 18 and the other isn't: statutory rape. If they're both teenagers, no rape at all. Drawing a line may not always work the way it should, but the line shouldn't be bent around at every mad parent's whim.

01-09-2007, 01:37 PM	#8
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	Drawing a line seems to me to be exactly why the age is set at 18. The gov can't assess the "competency" or intellectual reasoning ability of every teenager who has sexual relations. If one of the participants is over 18 and the other isn't: statutory rape. If they're both teenagers, no rape at all. Drawing a line may not always work the way it should, but the line shouldn't be bent around at every mad parent's whim. __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby