No law can always be enforced. Again... We have thousands of murders every year. We cannot live in a land of lawlessness. There is no liberty without order.
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I am firmly of the opinion that any wrong that cannot be expressed as a Common Law Tort simply shouldn't be actionable.
Prove harm, duty of care and intent, or go home.
This is an extreme example of a victimless "crime" constructed for public virtue-signalling and private partisan "discretion".
There is a plethora of evidence for how social media and porn affects children. They are the victim.
And alcohol?
Last I checked, we still have a legal drinking age... Adults are free to do what they want. Children should be legislated. For the record, the drinking and smoking age should be lowered to 18 imo.
When I turned 16 years they changed the smoking age to 18 lol
I think at 18 you should be legally able to do whatever you want. Businesses should still be free to do business how they see for as well. So a car rental is still free to not allow anyone under 25 to rent for instance. 21 drinking and smoking age is ludicrous.
I totally agree
So what do you say to the studies that say the frontal lobe isn't fully developed until mid 20s? Why arbitrarily make the cut off age 18?
Because at some point individuals must take full ownership of their actions. We shouldn't be waiting until a quarter of our life has gone by to do that. Also, you can serve in military at 18 fwiw. I wouldn't argue with dropping it to 16 either. Age of consent and all other"adult" activities should be the same. We keep raising it and as a result we have a bunch of reckless irresponsible young adults running around who think they are entitled to everything and take no responsibility for their actions when our forefathers at the same age were getting married and starting their families...
I think an argument could be made that young adults (and teens) have always run around being entitled and taking little to no responsibility for their actions, it's just the consequences for doing so now are substantially lessened.
Shot gun weddings were a thing for a very very long time and are the epitome of not considering future consequences.
I don't think forefathers are good examples to draw from if not only because many of their more negative qualities were filtered through lenses of historical idolatry but they were also a bunch of rich kids compared to the rest of society.
I'm not really arguing one way or another but it's an interesting topic of discussion.
won't work/
Yea, outlawing murder doesn't work either. Guess we should just get rid of all the laws.
we need a transformation/locally grown, grass roots styled to communities on a smaller scale that has worked for centuries maybe idk what do U think is the fix young dad? do U trust your leaders?
I only trust my God.
