Originally posted by cdtm
Other countries laws, are not our laws.And if a 30 year old woman is in sexual relations with a 14 year old boy, they are a predator. With adulthood, comes responsibility and social norms. One of those norms, is children do NOT live in the same world as adults. Period.
Again, that's not a child. Dehumanizing them into imbeciles by using the catch-all child label is a logical fallacy: appeal to emotion.
You cannot pretend they are adults but you cannot pretend they are children. You cannot erase millions of years of evolution overnight: this age thing only became a big deal in the last 200ish years (and that's a good thing: if you read about the mortality rates of the ancient South American women in that one large study they did, it's ridiculous. IIRC, 1/3 died if they got pregnant before 15. The reason they did this study was to determine our early reproductive habits and health. We thought we'd see evolution at play because mortality should drop as only those women adapted to birth would survive - it didn't really happen, we didn't see it in the data. It is one of those conundrums we haven't quite solved. But modern medicine fixed this, almost completely, in modern countries. But the one thing that was shared for many years is an average age mortality sharply decreased after 14 or 15 - we just aren't built for making babies before then.).
I can boil down your argument to this:
"Stop wanting to and having relationships with other sexually mature humans."
All of humans with the same genes from the last 2 million years: "Wait...we can't."
Here's how it works with all other animals:
"That's a sexually mature creature of my same species. They appear great. I am able to see they are perfect for reproduction. Let's have at it."
There are clear differences between teens, as well. Some don't mature until 17-19. Some, like me, are all the way done when they are 11 (I was shaving and only grew half an inch taller).