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[–]IMissPorn 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

I don't think statistics bear you out on that.

[–]trident765[S] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

A few centuries ago marriages between older men and teen girls were common, just browse Wikipedia articles of random famous people born in the Renaissance. Marriages from this time period were stabler than those of today. I am going to trust this over some "statistics" published by some blue haired feminist that purport to show that relationships with large age gaps are doomed.

[–]IMissPorn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

It has less to do with unreliable statistics and more to do with the fact that everything about society has changed dramatically. You can't just pick one aspect of the past and say "This thing, this worked better than what we have now, we'll start doing it again and everything will be better".

[–]trident765[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

What is your view? Do you even have one? You seem to keep changing direction in order to negate my comments.

[–]IMissPorn 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I do think 18 is too high, 16 is more or less reasonable, but a bigger problem is when there are no exceptions made for relationships between peers close in age. A decent percent of young teens are always gonna fool around, it's absolutely expected and normal, even if we wish they wouldn't. So if no official exception exists, that just means the law is ignored and authorities mostly look the other way. Laws that are widely ignored are obviously bad laws.

[–]trident765[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

You seem incapable of thinking broadly. You answer the specific comment, but your comments are inconsistent with each other. For example, in one comment you appeal to statistics, and when I doubted the utility of statistics, you say statistics don't matter and start making some tangential argument that has nothing to do with the original point I made. You are a task-oriented thinker.

[–]IMissPorn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks. But you misunderstood. I'm not saying statistics don't matter, as such. Outcomes matter, and statistics attempt to measure that. But I'm saying if the current statistics don't look like you hoped they would, that's not mainly because they have been manipulated by "blue haired feminists", and more because society itself has changed completely. (Whether or not you want to blame blue haired feminists for that also is up to you.)