idk it just feels like an all-powerful federal govt of so much land is such a bad idea, also open to far-reaching corruption (or legal corruption: lobbying)
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It's not really "trying to get ahead of culture change," since sex with children hasn't really been chill culturally for seventy years now.
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It makes sense that one would want there to be a world in which people are not doing things that permanently scar children. But...
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...when we enact a law, it's important that we consider (1) the scale of the problem we want to fix (2) our ability to actually *solve* the problem through legal means (3) the "side effects" of our chosen enforcement mechanisms
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Scale: big enough to be an issue Ability to solve: good enough that it prevents at least a bit Side effects: none, as long as proper Romeo and Juliet laws are in place.
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None of these are particularly convincing or specific. I read this as "we don't know how widespread it is or how we're going to fix it, but it seems like a bad thing and we want it gone.", which is the thing I mentioned earlier about "bad thing -> make a law".
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For more exact wording: Scale: http://victimsofcrime.org/media/reporting-on-child-sexual-abuse/child-sexual-abuse-statistics … Ability to solve: Not entirely to solve, but to deter. Side-effects: Nothing unpositive, as long as Romeo and Juliet laws are in play.
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