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Originally Posted by calculoso
14 year olds never used to be sexual beings. They have evolved into such over time from their outside stimulii (Britney Spears, etc). Just look at their clothes when at the mall and compare that to years ago. It's night and day.
If you're still going to use that argument, why won't 12 year olds be sexual beings in a few years? They are in other parts of the world, aren't they?
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That is completely 100% false. Recent outside stimuli has no effect on millions of years of evolution.
In fact, up until modern times, it wasn't unusual at all for a 14 or 15 year old to be married and have children. It was a necessity back in the time when human life expectancy was in the 30s and infant mortality rate more than 50%.
While we may not have those problems in our country today, it doesn't change the fact that nature has made humans evolve in such a way that gives them sexual desires as an teenager.
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The point is to deter the adults from even going after them. Sure there are always going to be some deviants who do it anyway. That's a given. Why accept it and plan for it instead of deal with the exception when it occurs?
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I seriously doubt it would deter them though. That is the point.
Most data I have seen shows that punishments are rarely a deterrant.