Comment on Should 21-23-year-olds be allowed to date older people?
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 19 hours ago
I don’t want to live in a society that encroaches on interpersonal relationships enough to outlaw large age differences between romantic partners who are all consenting adults.
YaBoyMax@programming.dev 19 hours ago
The age of majority is a pretty arbitrary line that we draw; I don’t see how this would be fundamentally different. We already “encroach” on interpersonal relationships by not allowing adults to date minors (which again is defined completely arbitrarily).
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 19 hours ago
The age of majority (or various ages) are somewhat arbitrary, but it has to be drawn somewhere because it’s used to allow a whole bunch of activities rather than just for relationships.
There’s a significant difference between “you must be this age to be considered old enough to make your own choices on a variety of things” and “here’s a specific range of people who you are not allowed to have sexual intercourse with”