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[–] Blahaj_Blast@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm getting more secure in my instance choice all the time

[–] princess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

a+ username would giggle quietly to myself again

If you like the name, make sure you check out the profile pic

[–] Dee@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean, it's Raddle. That place has always been pretty shit with toxic views, this doesn't necessarily surprise me tbh.

[–] illogical_virtues@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

I used it for about 3 days, until there was a post on the front page with a bunch of comments arguing incest is morally ok. Kinda put me off.

[–] solinus@lemmy.cafe 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thank goodness I left raddle

apparently when i signed up i thought lemmy was the toxic one, not raddle

slight miscalculation

[–] WizBizX05@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I just checked the comments... shit's wild down there.

[–] LorelaiL@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 year ago

Wow I had a whole crisis for creating the 196 on blahaj.zone because I thought it would move traffic away from the raddle. Now I am glad it moved traffic.

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Appealing to majority is a bad way to make an argument. The age of consent in America shouldn't be 16 because it is in other countries, like my own, the UK, but because in its own right a human of age 16 is mature enough to make their own decisions about this.

[–] WizBizX05@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, I think 18 is mature enough. 16 is too young.

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] ezri@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 year ago
[–] rubythulhu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am, what are you implying about me?

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're not the original person I was replying to, but I'm glad you're vegan. Do you think everyone else should be vegan too?

[–] ezri@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 year ago

What does that have to do with anything

[–] ieatpillowtags@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

How exactly are they mature enough? By what standard?

[–] Fucku@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

For the record, each state sets the age of consent. 16 is the age in many states

[–] Anti_Weeb_Penguin@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Imagine using radd(l)e

[–] Andiloor@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

I just looked it up for my country and the law is pretty complex but here's what I gathered

  • 16 is the age of consent for sexual activity
  • romeo-and-juliet laws for 14 and 15 year olds (up to 5 years their senior, imo this is too much)
  • 16 and 17 year olds cannot consent if there is any power dynamic
  • 18 is the age of consent for pornography

Imo it should probably be that the age of consent is 18, with 14-17 year olds under romeo-and-juliet laws (and maybe like 3 or 4 years their senior). High school is just such a different stage of life, and social acceptance into adulthood is at 18 anyway (though I personally didn't feel like an adult till I was 21)

[–] ViridianNott@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

It is really dumb to make it a hard cutoff in the first place. Colorado uses a system in which someone who is 15 can consent to sex with someone no older than 18. At 16 you can date consent with someone up to age at 19, and at 17 up to age 20. At age 18, people are considered adults and there is no longer an age limit to consent.

It is wholly necessary to protect children from sexual predators using age of consent laws. At the same time, it is a bit ridiculous to pretend that people in their teens don’t have sexual relationships with one another, and the law ought to reflect that. I certainly don’t feel that an 18-year-old should be considered a criminal for dating a 17-year-old, anyway.

[–] yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago

Seems like a whole bunch of pedos downvoting

[–] NylaSmokeyface@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

ewwww I just wanted to see r/traa again 😭😭😭

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