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⌈ Secret Post #4590 ⌋

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[Good Omens]

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[Jay and Silent Bob Reboot]

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[The Witcher]

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[Michael Sheen and his girlfriend, Swedish actress Anna Lundberg]

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Once someone is an adult and of legal age, regulating what other consenting adult they can date and enforcing it is a dangerous idea.

Who is it enforced by, anyway? Will the government, or worse, the police, be carding everyone at date spots? What's the punishment?

If you're 30, you can date a 39 year old but not a 29 year old? If you're 29, you can date a 24 year old but not a 30 year old? If you're 40, you're arbitrarily declared over the hill and automatically a predator if you date someone that's 35?

lol

On the other hand, such regulations could prevent people from entering into certain toxic relationships, or prevent predators from pursuing younger people.

Probably enforced by the government as well as society itself, seeing age gaps as cultural taboo. The usual punishment ranges from monetary fines, privileges taken away, restraining orders, jail time, etc. It depends on the situation.

Well, the 40 year old has to deal with other 40 year olds, but for the borderline ages like 29/30, 39/40, etc or even 19/20, there could be some kind of one year gap exception.

NAYRT, but this is a really creepy and gross idea. Once a person is an adult, they can date/sleep with/marry whoever they choose to, and as someone who’s only ever been attracted to people significantly older than me, I’m really glad your hypothetical world isn’t reality. Yes, adults who sleep/pursue relationships with minors are creeps, but that’s why those things are already taboo and illegal. Just because age gaps between consenting adults creep you out doesn’t mean you get to make me and people like me suffer or be seen as perverts.

I can see in that hypothetical world, it can become dystopian for a number of people. I'm sorry. It was not my intention to make it personal. I'm bringing up a hypothetical scenario where age is a definitive factor and how it would affect society in general.

Great idea! In addition, we should also regulate what genders, races, and sexualities people can date. Obviously women shouldn't date men, since there are such high male-on-female domestic abuse rates. But bisexual women also shouldn't date other women, because those relationships have the highest proportional rate of domestic abuse... Hmm. This is getting complicated. Someone will need to draw up a diagram of what demographics are allowed to date each other.

But what if only age is regulated, not gender/sex/race, etc.

Turns out a number of people may feel ~lonely~ but what about the ones who don't feel attraction to anyone?

such regulations could prevent people from entering into certain toxic relationships

Except here's the thing:

1) There are SO MANY REASONS and SO MANY WAYS that a relationship can become toxic; if you start denying people certain rights as a preventative measure, you may as well just make all relationships that aren't government arranged illegal. And even then, I'd bet all the money I have there would still be plenty of toxic relationships occurring.

2) People have the right to enter into (and even to remain in) toxic relationships. We don't have the right to forbid them from doing so. If one or both of the people in the relationship break the law in their conduct towards each other, then we have the right to report them and the law has the right to step in. But if you tried to forcibly stop another adult from acting on their own free will because you'd deemed their relationship toxic, then you'd be the one in breach of the law.

prevent predators from pursuing younger people

That's what Age Of Consent and Statutory Rape Laws are for.

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