I would agree somewhere there is a threshold where abuse can reasonably be assumed. But abuse has to be the thing demonstrated for the crime and not merely the age of the participants.
I agree those implications sound shocking, but please read on:
When it comes to criminality, we need to stay focused on the abuse and manipulation and not be distracted by ages or any other correlative relationship. Going over the line of consent is the trespass we all agree upon.
Such hyper-vigilance will permit us to pursue the true sentiments and goals of metoo and cancel culture, to rout out systems and institutions of abuse. All kinds.
For instance, a 10 year old with a 40 year old late at night at a park sounds like a major red flag, something we should all find unacceptable.
What if it's a basketball coach waiting for a parent who's running late?
The point of that redirection story is that abuse and manipulation is what needs to be demonstrated, not just the mere existence of a relationship. Abuse can happen without sex at all.
Our immense paranoia of child sex predators has robbed people of their natural desires to nurture children. By assuming the worst is inevitable we have made the best impossible.
I know it's a high standard so let us all aim high.
OFC, bear in mind having consent low in Spain said
a lot of other terms, such as if you were 14 and
commited some serious crime, (murder for example),
you could be jailed as an adult. That got changed a few decades ago with the "Minor's Law" and not
everyone was happy because a gang composed of
minors commited one of the worst crimes ever in
Spain against slightly mentally challenged woman.
On the main theme, yes, the US is paranoid, and a lot of
people exploiting the average fear from the American:
the market and the consumering society.
I agree those implications sound shocking, but please read on:
When it comes to criminality, we need to stay focused on the abuse and manipulation and not be distracted by ages or any other correlative relationship. Going over the line of consent is the trespass we all agree upon.
Such hyper-vigilance will permit us to pursue the true sentiments and goals of metoo and cancel culture, to rout out systems and institutions of abuse. All kinds.
For instance, a 10 year old with a 40 year old late at night at a park sounds like a major red flag, something we should all find unacceptable.
What if it's a basketball coach waiting for a parent who's running late?
The point of that redirection story is that abuse and manipulation is what needs to be demonstrated, not just the mere existence of a relationship. Abuse can happen without sex at all.
Our immense paranoia of child sex predators has robbed people of their natural desires to nurture children. By assuming the worst is inevitable we have made the best impossible.
I know it's a high standard so let us all aim high.