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I'm abhorred by the amount of youths having sex these days, I dislike the idea of sex in all ways but if I have to validate an appropriate age I think even 16 is pushing the boundary, the fact that everything in the world todays seems to shove it in your face at ever opportunity is the main problem.
I don't see what was so wrong with the old days where people courted for a long time before finally consenting and waiting till they were 18, 19 even 30. The fact its every where you turn these days is one of the reasons I think the world is turning into a big vat of sex mad, stupid monkeys that rather than having in intelligent discussion and other such things would rather throw feces at one another in an attempt at fun.

Konata: While you are allowed your own opinions, this was placed here to have an intelligent discussion, and you so insinuated otherwise towards the end of your statement.

Back in the day, forty-year-olds married and ******** sixteen-year-olds.

Shall we revert to that, too?

I've been in both Orchestra and Band. Orchestra first, I played violin (better than Ives!!), and I now am in band playing clarinet. Suckily. 'Cause, y'know, I just started. And there's no beginner class, dammit. sad

And y'know, just to provide another viewpoint as of yet unspoken, here I go.
Konata says she dislikes even 16 as an age of consent. And a lot of people have said things similar to that. So! First, we'll say nature. Basically, nature intended for us to ******** as soon as we were physically capable. Ever wonder why every single fourteen-year-old you've ever met was perverted? Yeah.... never know when some random animal would come along and rip our intestines out through our chest, so in order to be sure the human race wouldn't die, we went and got each other pregnant as soon as possible. Same with the human's natural self-conflict: loyalty vs. promiscuity. Humans, like penguins, have an instinct which makes us loyal to our..... 'mate'..... although I hate using that term, as it reduces the entire relationship to that alone..... but hey, I'm supposed to be an uninvolved thrid party for the purposes of this. Now. That instinct..... to be honest, I'm really tired, so I can't remember why exactly we have it, but yeah. That's the reason behind the boyfriend-girlfriend structure: loyalty. You only have one. Now, humans also have another instinct which contradicts this, which penguins don't have: promiscuity. We, as a species, want to ******** different people as opposed to only one. I can remember why this is. In males, it was intended to basically increase the human population by allowing and encouraging the male to father many children. In females, it was intended to allow for genetic 'mixing', since I'm too tired to come up with a better term: it was intended to have the female have sex with several different males, in order to increase the genetic variation within the population, thus providing higher chances of rending a 'superior human', that is, one who can actually live more than fifteen years. Obviously, this was successful. But in the end, now that the promiscuity instinct is no longer needed, we're stuck with two contradictory instincts, promiscuity and loyalty to one 'mate', which put us in internal conflict pretty often. For me personally, I'm a pretty big fan o' loyalty, but there are those who almost completely ignore that instinct, so I guess it somehow evens out in a very odd way that doesn't really even out but kinda looks like it might.....
Aaaand the middle ages. Like Ives already said, people died pretty early, so they obviously had to have children by the time they did, otherwise we wouldn't be having this conversation. Twenty-something was the age at which you were expected to have a family and children, or at least children on the way, and by thirty, you were either dead or old. All those movies in the middle ages with guys with gray hair? In their fifties or so? Yeah, they'd be ancient to the people then. Prolly be worshipped or something. Anyway, that was another reason for breeding early.
Basically, it all goes back to times in which we had to breed early to insure that the human race would survive. Of course, those times are gone, but we still have those basic instincts, so....... yeah.

Also, back to the middle ages thing, I think that's wierd. Take knights. If you were lucky enough to be able to pay to train as a knight, you became a page at age seven, which was a servant to the knight under whom you train, then a squire at age fourteen, which was when you began actually training. When and if you turned twenty-one, you became a knight. Notice the pattern there? Seven, seven years, seven years, seven years, knight. 7-7-7-7-K. Or, to say the steps alone, 7-7-7. Notice something familiar about that?

Playing Violin better than Ives is hardly an accomplishment crying
But you know something? I also enjoy abusing emotes mrgreen

Your elaborate explanation was dead on, I would just say that most of the people that heavily disregard the loyalty part are instinct driven, and more times than not have suffered a broken heart (but then again, who hasnt?)

I just think that experimenting a little before settling down is a great way to get that out of your system, otherwise you might end up wondering how some stuff actually is rofl

Yes, that includes a menage a trois, hope I am still chill enough to not bring upon myself Nyzz anger, otherwise I will have to take another of those awfull tasting chill pills

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