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Whenever u ask 'Why are the laws the way they are'

Posted by Lysander on 2017-July-14 16:29:44, Friday
In reply to Why is modern law so concerned with sex posted by Jessy on 2017-July-13 17:25:51, Thursday

the answer is usually that there was some obscure political reason why they were passed, that's no longer relevant to modern times, but people have since come up with some post hoc rationalization for keeping those laws in place.

It's like how having Congress have a Senate and a House of Representatives was originally a political compromise, but later got spun as a brilliant idea. Except that it isn't, really; it creates a lot of potential for political gridlock. Yet even that gets spun as being a feature rather than a defect.

The sex laws started out as a way of protecting very young girls' marriageability. Then the feminists said, "Let's make these laws gender-neutral, and protect boys as well, since our agenda calls for making everything gender-neutral" even though this didn't make sense, since nobody cares if a groom isn't a virgin.

The Romeo and Juliet laws then got retrofitted into the statutes, under the theory that sex with kids is okay as long as you're not in a position to take advantage of them. The theory behind this is that girls should be encouraged to be sluts so that they can get through their years of education without getting so sexually frustrated that they want to do something anti-feminist like marry an older man. Yet it was never really answered, "What is it about sex that is exploitative, anyway; given the feminist assumption that sluttiness is okay, it's not like you're taking anything from them by having sex with them." But we can't point out that inconsistency, because that would be politically incorrect.

Nowadays, marriage is starting to seem like an outdated institution anyway, given that our culture has gone in the direction of condoning having kids outside of wedlock, but the post hoc rationalization for these laws is that kids are traumatized by sex with adults. The science was revised to suit the political doctrine, and dissident scientists were ostracized and their work buried (as in, you're not allowed to cite to it, unless you want to criticize it).

There are historical "reasons" for everything but those get swept under the rug as irrelevant when you try to bring them up, as people often a lot of self-contradictory rationalizations for why we should stick with the status quo rather than changing anything.

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