Reminder: if a 50-year-old man uses his power to pressure a reluctant 18-year-old woman into sex, the numbers 50 and 18 have literally... nothing... to... do... with why this is morally (or legally) wrong. Mrs. Grundy's salacious tut-tut about the woman's youth insults the woman.
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Replying to @ESYudkowsky
There is a legal/illegal discontinuity at a certain age, but morality is more complicated.
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Replying to @lreyzin
If you think you know better than an 18-year-old who chooses of her own will and desire to proposition a 50-year-old man... maybe you're right. But anyone who looks to you to decide that is subordinating her decision to your supposedly greater wisdom about *her* life.
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Replying to @ESYudkowsky @lreyzin
It's true. There's no sharp cutoffs in reality. Some 16-year-olds are wise enough to make up their own minds, some 21-year-olds aren't. But it is *problematic* to try to pick and choose. Society drew a line and I think that may have been wise.
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Looking away from the nonconsent to tut-tut about the age difference implies you somehow know she couldn't have been some 50-year-old's equal and competent to start such a relationship on her own if she'd so chosen. That's trivializing her choices, and not at a good time.
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