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Weird question from a weird guy
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Oh, you misunderstand.
By expressing an understanding of the legalities of it, and speaking from a neutral viewpoint, plus some deficiency in reading comprehension (you clearly didn't read the whole post), you seem to have assumed that my statements meant I agreed with any of the laws I was discussing.
I don't.
Let me put it simply (and I said this in my previous post, more or less): no adult person should be seeking this kind of "deal" or "relationship" with someone who is under the age of consent.
I recognise that with parental permission you can attain concent to (at the very least) marry an underage person. I don't agree that people this young should be allowed to be married or perform sexual acts even with the consent of the parents. The law disagrees.
I don't like it, and I don't have to.
My post was largely a commentary on how fucked up the legal system is for allowing this.
You want change? Pass new laws.
"Pretty much everywhere"?
Dude do you even know what "common law" means? There's basically one in Europe, the UK.
Secondly, you can't make contracts to void laws/avoid regulations set by laws. You can't make a private contract that someone agrees to work for you for less than the federal mandated minimum wage.
You can't make a contract saying you're selling someone to be a slave, as slavery is illegal in the US (unless you're put in prison, US industry strongly relies on prison slave labour).
You can't make a contract saying you allow someone to murder you. That person would still be trialed as a murderer.
I think it does, however indirectly. When the rich start getting more relaxed about buying people and treating them more as product than people.... it will affect us all.
You could get people to do absolutely inhumane shit if you took 10 million to a very poor country and just started egging people on. People would literally kill for just hundreds of dollars. With 10 million you could make some sort of mad max murderdome type of setup. Just have "private contracts" with everyone, and it's okay, right? No need to consider the morality in the slightest.
Yes. But apparently you don't.
Yes, the UK uses common law. Also, so do many current or former "Commonwealth", including, but not limited to, the USA.
Common law is why overturning Roe v. Wade made abortion bans possible. Roe v. Wade was the common law precedent that allowed for women to have the right to an abortion.
And no, contacts cannot overrule the law, whether from a law passed by the governing body, or by common law. This is why i essentially said, if you don't like it/agree with it, change the laws.
Make it illegal. Change the law to make it illegal.
Then, regardless of the contract, it is a crime.
As for the rich and any affect this might have on me.... The rich do this shit, not to dehumanize us "Poor's", but because they've already dehumanized us. I don't think this is a cause, this is an effect.
But I'll give you an upvote for sharing your opinion. I'll fight anyone who tries to take your opinion away from you.
Oh you went from "pretty much everywhere" to "well, uh, many commonwealth countries".
You sure you didn't have to go check what it meant, and then you were shocked at how many of what we'd consider "developed countries" actually do not use common law?
In the EU, only Ireland still has common law.
All others use civil law. And I'm sure you didn't know that. :)
And precedent is present in civil law systems as well.
Why... would it affect you. What on earth are you talking about?
You know, one guy murdering another guy over a pack of raisins doesn't affect you, but I have no earthly idea why this should stop you from caring it happened.
For me it's about freedom.
Freedom has limits that most don't really talk about. To me, the limits of freedom exist where your freedom and the freedom of others intersect. If your freedom is impacting the ability for someone else to enjoy their freedoms, then it needs to be a matter settled by law.
Murdering someone kinda removes that person's ability to exercise their freedoms.
Someone getting freaky behind closed doors, doesn't affect anyone else's freedoms.
Both individuals engaged in that act should be free to consent to the act, and revoke that consent at any time.
I'll reiterate, this assumes informed consent, not implied or assumed consent. Again, reiterating: children that have no understanding of sexual acts, or what they entail, cannot provide informed consent because they do not understand what they are consenting to, or what the ramifications are of that consent.
Does that clear things up a bit?
A 14 year old.
I like how you keep putting up these disclaimers like they're supposed to absolve you of being a weirdo, but you keep building in these little exceptions for "very mature" children.
Mystik, how much the child knows about sex does not matter. That's not why it's illegal.
The law makes it legal or illegal.
You miss the point.
The fact is, the law specifically allows for this shit. Holy crap people.
The judicial system is so fucked that you can get parental consent and do whatever you want with the underage person. That's fucked.
The laws are fucked.
Now that I've pointed it out, and you bozos don't know enough about the law you live under, you think I agree it should be allowed. I don't.
It's allowed.
I don't agree with it.
It's it clear yet? Fix your laws. Period.
Dude I think the proper nomenclature is "unalive"