• snooggums@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    A child that young is literally unable to consent. They don’t have the mental capacity to understand whether they are doing it voluntarily or being coerced.

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      7 hours ago

      They don’t have the mental capacity to understand whether they are doing it voluntarily or being coerced.

      This applies to many adults, as well.

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        7 hours ago

        Tell me you don’t understand brain development without telling me you don’t understand brain development.

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          So, it’s not “mental capacity” but “brain development”?

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              5 hours ago

              Yes, but what does that have to do with mental capacity and consent? That’s what you original posited, before I mentioned adults without the “mental capacity to understand whether they are doing it voluntarily or being coerced.”

              You kind of just ignored that and pivoted to something else.

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                Brain development is the process of reaching mental capacity. Until someone reaches an age where their brain has developed enough they don’t have the mental capacity to make certain decisions like consenting to sex. Some people’s brain development doesn’t work right and they don’t reach that mental capacity or they have an injury that causes them to lose that capacity, but at no point is a 13 year old’s brain developed enough to have the mental capacity to consent to sex.

                I was just summarizing the obvious thing that has been pointed out multiple times. I doubt it will sink in this time either.