In 1880 the age of consent in the USA used to be 10 or 12, it was 7 in Delaware.

esbo

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What does that say about the USA?

Reply 1

plasmaman

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Original post by esbo

What does that say about the USA?

that its ****ed

Reply 2

Anjum - Yasmin

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Delaware was unaware.

Reply 3

username1530463

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Original post by plasmaman

that its ****ed

It's always been like that.

Reply 4

Arkasia

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That was in 1880 lmao, says **** all about the US.

Reply 5

User1214833

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Things were very different back then. It seems messed up by modern standards, but people didn't live as long and life was much harder.

(edited 9 years ago)

Reply 6

Chicken.M.

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Original post by Anjum - Yasmin

Delaware was unaware.

I do not give you this rep lightly :redface:

Reply 7

Illiberal Liberal

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Yeah, normally I'm well up for a spot of U.S. bashing, but we can't really judge a nation on its policies from 135 years ago.

If anything it shows that the U.S. is a socially progressive nation because of how far their laws/attitudes have changed - the very definition of social progressiveness. :smile:

Reply 8

esbo

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Original post by Law-Hopeful

Yeah, normally I'm well up for a spot of U.S. bashing, but we can't really judge a nation on its policies from 135 years ago.

If anything it shows that the U.S. is a socially progressive nation because of how far their laws/attitudes have changed - the very definition of social progressiveness. :smile:

Is banning biological adults from having sex progressive?

Reply 9

Lady Comstock

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Original post by esbo

What does that say about the USA?

It would say a lot if the USA was now claiming, in 2015, that Delaware in 1880 was a place with a divinely inspired sense of morality that transcends time.

(edited 9 years ago)

Reply 10

Illiberal Liberal

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Original post by esbo

Is banning biological adults from having sex progressive?

Progressiveness, as the name suggests, is a process rather than an end result.

As for your question, I don't think any two adults, capable of giving informed consent, should have their consensual sexual relations interfered with by the state.

Reply 11

hilrho

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Original post by Synthesize

Sources please. We can all make wild and baseless claims. Like Mohammed molested pre-pubescent children, wore women's clothes, sucked young boys tongues, etc.

Oh wait, they're true.

I'm agnostic and neither do I come from a muslim background but how rude.

Reply 12

Green_Pink

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Jack ****. The age of consent was universally lower at that time, and there was a very different concept of what constituted a child.

Reply 13

Hickory Dickory

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It says that as human beings, the Americans have realized that it was WRONG to do so, and they have changed the laws to reflect that, proving that our sense of mortality improves as our knowledge and understanding of various aspects of life improves.

That's of course unlike some ideology that claims it is the unchangeable, unquestionable authority for all times.