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Originally Posted by Thor
Do you consider a 16 yr old a child?
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Originally Posted by Weiser Wonder
Yes.
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16 and 17 year olds are not children. I was in my first year of university at age 17. I think a lot of posters here are forgetting what it was like to be that age, and the kind of things kids at that age do. At 16 and 17, I was totally capable of making my own decision when it came to sex and understanding the consequences. It wasn't even a gray area.
Was a police officer suppossed to come around my dorm room and make sure I wasn't having sex with people I couldn't consent with? The current age of consent of 16 is totally acceptable.
Anyone stating that 16 and 17 year olds aren't capable of making these decisions is living in some kind of puritan fantasy. I wouldn't sleep with someone that young, as I find it reprehensible for moral reasons, however, there's a differnce between acts that are morally unacceptable and those that are criminal.