Sorry it took me a minute to reply; for some reason I didn't get a notification that you quoted me.
Sahri
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Sahri
I've always had some objections against marriage/love between people whose age gap was over 20 years...
Why?
I had these beliefs because where I grew up I didn't see this kind of stuff. It was only when someone from my family started to do it where I didn't feel very comfortable with the idea of a younger person can fall in love with someone much older.
It sounds like you thought it was weird or whatever simply because it was different, and outside of your 'comfort zone', as it were.
Out of curiosity, what was it that made you uncomfortable? Was the discomfort caused by the actions of the younger or older person?
Sahri
...if the people in your environment think the same as you you're not likely to change your opinion about it.
...which is why it's important to understand that
argumentum ad populum does not mean that something is
correct, just that it's a popular opinion.
For example, lots of people still think that vaccines cause autism,
but they don't.
Sahri
And morals? I think plenty of people would not be comfortable with that idea as well.
Discomfort =/= Immoral... though people often do conflate the two.
Again, it really all depends on where you live, since different things are more (or less) acceptable in different cultures. In some societies nobody would blink an eye at the thought of a girl being married to a guy 20+ years older than she is. In most western countries, it's considered "unusual", though I imagine that most people would be hard-pressed to provide a reason why they think that way beyond "because it is".