Like you say, both positions are very 'problematic'. If you say it's OK to do it if you simply didn't know, what's to stop people from knowingly doing it and then saying that they didn't know?
Then again, I feel icky about a man in his fifties fucking a teen, even if barely legal. Like there wouldn't be a question if he wasn't looking for guys a third of his age...
In this case, the young man clearly lied about his age since he was on the dating app.
You know how we prosecute 16 yr olds as adults for certain crimes? The idea is that the law provides you certain protection for being a minor but that depending on your actions you can lose that protection. Which is exactly what this is to me. If you have the wherewithal to pretend to be 18 to engage in sex, then the consequences of that are on you.
The location of the degeneracy doesn't matter to me. You're not allowed to hookup in a car in public, no matter your sex or whether you're paying for it or whatever. They are both guilty of whatever that is.
Looks like Brett here couldn’t be bothered to not bang 16 year olds.
Who on earth asks for an ID on a date?
Like you say, both positions are very 'problematic'. If you say it's OK to do it if you simply didn't know, what's to stop people from knowingly doing it and then saying that they didn't know?
Right, it'd be weird to ask, but perfectly normal to force a situation where someone else does.
Then again, I feel icky about a man in his fifties fucking a teen, even if barely legal. Like there wouldn't be a question if he wasn't looking for guys a third of his age...
In this case, the young man clearly lied about his age since he was on the dating app.
You know how we prosecute 16 yr olds as adults for certain crimes? The idea is that the law provides you certain protection for being a minor but that depending on your actions you can lose that protection. Which is exactly what this is to me. If you have the wherewithal to pretend to be 18 to engage in sex, then the consequences of that are on you.
Children are retards and it's society's responsibility to protect them from their immature selves.
Unless of course they
get groomeddecide to cut off their genitals. That's totally fine.The location of the degeneracy doesn't matter to me. You're not allowed to hookup in a car in public, no matter your sex or whether you're paying for it or whatever. They are both guilty of whatever that is.