What is the most appropriate age for consent?
What would be the most appropriate age be for consent.
In Nigeria the age of consent is 11
In Japan the age of consent is 13
And in South America it's 14
While most parts of the world it's 16-18
Of course the ages of consent used to be a lot lower in the past where girls would used to get married at age 12.
But what are your thoughts on what the most appropriate age for consent should be.
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While most parts of the world it's 18 By most of the world, you mean the West, not most of the world. 2
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It is whatever a "free society" decides it should be. A society that is not free to decide by majority, well, they're just stuck with whatever the "leaders" decide. If they're stuck with a single religion making the decision it will probably be unreasonable, one way or the other. |