Should a mature man have the right to marry a 12-years-old girl

[Kilgore Trout]

By mature man I mean a fourty-years-old man

I suppose it depends on the context, culture, time, and specific practices and mores of the people involved.

 

[Estro Felino]

I suppose it depends on the context, culture, time, and specific practices and mores of the people involved.

That's what I call pure incoherence.
In the other thread you accuse me of generalizing about my cultural context.
whereas I assure you that the majority of Italian women are obsessed with beauty.
what's wrong with being a promiscuous adult woman?
in this thread you justify a bunch of pedophiles and perverts who sleep with underage girls.
I am disgusted

 

[Kilgore Trout]

That's what I call pure incoherence.
In the other thread you accuse me of generalizing about my cultural context.
whereas I assure you that the majority of Italian women are obsessed with beauty.
what's wrong with being a promiscuous adult woman?
in this thread you justify a bunch of pedophiles and perverts who sleep with underage girls.
I am disgusted

Perhaps, you need to look up what "incoherence" means.

 

[idav]

I don't even think 12 year olds should get married.

 

[RitalinOhD]

I might be prejudiced (and I often am) but I don't view a person who is 21 as mature. If a 30 year old woman or man finds loves with a person in their 50's or 70's or 100's I have no problem whatsoever. It is only because of the immaturity of people in their early 20's do I see a power disparity.

I've known people in their early 20s much more mature than some in their 30s and 40s.


Although 12 is still a child, and far too young for dating, let alone marriage.

 

[Aquitaine]

By mature man I mean a fourty-years-old man

Nope.

 

[Penumbra]

In older civilizations and tribes, as well as some less economically developed ones today, partnering with someone at a very young age, especially the girl being so young, was common. In a way it made sense; just like other animals begin reproducing soon after they're old enough to, that's what humans did, and in some places still do.

It's this more modern view that has greatly extended the age, and the age difference, at which it becomes legally or socially acceptable to partner up. So now we have rape laws that make it so that an older person can't have even consensual sex with a younger person, or marry them. And I support those laws, because in the modern context of the necessity of schooling, marrying out of choice rather than arrangement, and humanism as a whole where at least in theory we have these values that support freedom and independence and mature decisions, that's pretty essential for the protection of children.