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>To suggest this was rape, against her will, is a bit preposterous and an incorrect usage of the word There are different kinds of rape. It doesn't really matt

• parasitius 12y ago
  Jesus unholy Christ, how many Yanomami 13 year olds do you even know? let me guess. NONE Go look up research on how long adolescence has been extended in the past few hundred years - now in the past 20 they're saying it has extended into the 20s. Suppose that makes most of us rapists.
• parasitius 12y ago
  Jesus unholy Christ, how many Yanomami 13 year olds do you even know? let me guess. NONE Go look up research on how long adolescence has been extended in the past few hundred years - now in the past 20 they're saying it has extended into the 20s. Suppose that makes most of us rapists.
• mistermann 12y ago
  I know plenty of 30+ year olds who aren't mature enough to make such a decision either. The age of 18 is just an arbitrary choice to plant a legal marker, because it's not practical to judge on a case by case basis. Not that I'm condoning the behavior in this case....I'd think the intent of age of consent laws would be to protect those not yet able to protect themself with their own judgement - it should be obvious in this case, especially considering his age at the time, that taking a ~13 year old "wife" and proceeding to have sex with her when you had no intent to move there permanently was an incredibly wrong thing to do, by any moral compass.
  • phaus 12y ago
    I agree that SOME 30 year-olds aren't mature enough to make adult decisions, but on the other hand almost every single 13 year-old on the planet is too immature.
• fallinghawks 12y ago
  I don't know any, but I don't live in the Amazon. If you ask them, they might say yes. And apparently she chose him, so...