@unicornmronion@AlexDaviesEnts Exactly my point, would be far more believable to acknowledge being friends, but deny knowing about anything predatory or criminal.
@gectrees@LepaThewarrior@LocalBateman Ffs, how would you know? Not everything is in your particular juristiction you know. This would be illegal in plenty of places.
@UtterlyCoN@LoveFreedomGB@officialsammyuk@SydneyJones_ It's either illegal or it isn't. Changing the law - to something intended to be selectively enforced at the whims of authorities is just bad legislation. Dangerous because people won't know where they stand.
If you want an age gap law, advocate for that. Anything else is absurd.
@lynch2769@brumvillan28@kickingmustang@PaulEmbery That's because the *certain* exploitation of women in porn is far more tolerable to your average leftist than the *possible* exploitation of a younger woman in an age gap relationship. Wonder why that would be...
@MrsLocke5@kunley_drukpa@PaulEmbery Young women from young men? Just that way around?
So young women are naive and too impressionable then? Guessing you'd support raising only their age of consent, voting etc, since they cannot excercise informed consent to any of these things without being exploited...?
@arthur_mp@AnnabethUnbound Changing laws from one which is mostly obeyed into one that is quite likely to be mostly broken has the effect of encouraging disrespect for *all laws*- also encourages people coming of age to think breaking the law is normal and acceptable because they know 16 used to be fine.
@arthur_mp@AnnabethUnbound Lol, no, not how it works.
Your average 16 year old is sexually active; so are many 14/15 year olds.
If you raise it & make a law most people will break, it isn't enforceable. At best, it's only *selectively* enforceable, meaning it gets broken loads and you pick out the worst.
@SteeOne@JournalistJill You think people never look up things like that for innocent reasons? Like for instance finding out how long guilty paedos would get? That's the only reason I learned there was a difference.
I assume most people with such criminal tendencies just plan not to get caught.
@GJohannes78@chuckleofdoom@virginpunk_ Always stuck with me that. The most insidious evil is that which doesn't *need* to kill, or at least does so rarely, because they will steal your mind away from you and make you think it was your choice.
@GJohannes78@chuckleofdoom@virginpunk_ In Orwell's 1984 the government torturer compares the totalitarian states of the past with the one he serves, stating that whilst those would have killed you, you would die with a mind that still held onto your freedom. Under *his*, they may kill you, but you'll join them first.