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FYI: the age of consent in California is 18.

• yellowapple 7y ago
  California != the United States, which I assume was the GP's point (and also one of Stallman's points): the age of consent varies between jurisdictions even within the United States, let alone outside of it, so trying to declare "sex with someone under the legal age" as inherently immoral would require clarifying which legal age in order for that declaration to be meaningful. That is: it's hard to have a meaningful discussion about whether or not someone is old enough to give informed consent if there's no actually consistent definition of what "old enough" actually means. I personally consider 20 to be that age (with some lenience for situations where both parties were/are underage at the start of the intimate relationship), but that's based more on the typical "half plus 7" rule than anything particularly concrete.