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It sounds like you are equating any job to getting sexually abused or raped.

That is “like… Yuck”.

It’s an irrelevant comparison because the work itself is not abuse. There are other laws that protect kids from being abused, if they are being abused to force them to work(or for any other purpose).

If you don’t care what people under 18 think, you should reflect on how selfish and closed-minded that sounds to me and especially to the real human people you are proposing to lose their ability to work.

Do you really think there is a major difference between the brain of a 17 year old the day before their 18th birthday and the day after? There is no significant difference at all.

So, my question is, where do you draw the line for a person under 18 whose quality of life might depend on working? Should they just have that freedom stripped because you don’t care what they think?

Even if they are on their own? Or supporting a dependent, like their own baby? Really? If you are that authoritarian about this, I hope you forget to vote on it.

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GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The yuck part is that children under 18 are legally defined as not having full reasoning and consent capabilities.

So, I wasn’t saying all work is rape, that’s silly and foolish to think.

I’m saying your assertion that teens should have adult independence to make adult choices without laws and support is yuck.

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- NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Never said anything about healthy. I have consented to a lot of “relationships” that weren’t healthy for a healthy relationship.
  
  I agree with most of what you said though
  
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- Creddit@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It sounds like you are using a legal framework from medical treatment of minors. If I have that right, then you should know that there is an exception for emancipated people under 18 years of age.
  
  Would you support the same exception for work, now that you know this or perhaps you would also eliminate this exception for them to control their own bodies in a medical context?
  
  www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4008301/#:~:….
  
  Court-ordered emancipation. A child under the age of 18 who lives independently without the support of parents and makes his or her own day-to-day decisions may petition the court for emancipation. If granted, the minor will have the same legal rights as an adult, including the right to consent to (and refuse) medical treatment.
  
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