Simon Dillon
Nov 29, 2023

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A question for you: In that case, should the age of consent be raised to twenty-five? Should the voting age be raised to twenty-five? Should you not be permitted to get a mortgate, etc, until then?

People are either considered adults at eighteen, or they aren't considered adults at eighteen. I don't think you can legislate for brain development in one's early twenties, unless of course you are in favour of making twenty-five or thereabouts age at which one is officially an adult.

Personally, I ask two questions: 1) Are these people over the age of consent? 2) Are they consenting? Anything else is none of my business.

Here's a good article on the subject: https://medium.com/lucid-nightmare/im-calling-time-on-the-bashing-of-age-gap-relationships-22e09ae93b1a

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Simon Dillon
Simon Dillon

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Novelist and Short Story-ist. Film and Book Lover. If you cut me, I bleed celluloid and paper pulp. Blog: www.simondillonbooks.wordpress.com

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