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To: Nifster
I can't argue professionally. I'm guessing there is a continuum as far as maturity in humans is measured.

Anyway, what does consent have to do with it. Consent, as I get the thinking, only applies to virginity. You can't tell when a boy becomes sexually active; more importantly, neither can he get pregnant!

I was racing power boats when I was fifteen, my capacity to make decisions, all kinds, was pretty well developed. No young, pretty teacher would be outside my still-developing mental capacity! Maybe I'm an exception, but I don't think so. I used to go to a lot of airplane soaring events. They give full-sized gliders to young men and women at age 14 to fly solo!

I rest my admittedly non-professional case.

26 posted on 11/27/2017 7:41:07 PM PST by Ace's Dad (BTW, "Ace" is now Captain Ace. But only when I'm bragging about my airline pilot son!)
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To: Ace's Dad

Male or female particularly in the teen aged years do not have, by development, their full mental capacity.

You are the one who brought up lowering the age of consent. My point is that it ought to be raised. The brain development of a teen ager is sufficiently deficient to be able to give adult consent.


27 posted on 11/27/2017 8:01:20 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Ace's Dad

Additionally you look back on your teen aged self and think you were smarter and more mature than you were


28 posted on 11/27/2017 8:02:33 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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