Controversial Things You Love

Liking Transformers and The Fast and the Furious is most definitely controversial.

Au contraire, Transformers and FaF are shit movies.
There I just created controversy.

nice boat to you then

its an anime where main characters head gets chopped off and a girl is on a boat sailing with his head

I dont have enough money to buy it sadly. And it wasn't on steam summer sale also:/

I think fudanshi would be the correct term for me, but I am not anywhere close to being 50.

It depends on the country.

16 is legal in some places.

No offense, but it's scary that there are people out there who don't know enough to differentiate between pedophilia and age of consent laws.

Pedos are attracted to children: Young, prepubescent, children. It's a psychological issue with severe legal and sociological ramifications, should the person try to indulge their desires at the expense of a child.

Age of consent, on the other hand, is a LEGAL distinction, and changes from place to place. I think you'd find there are a lot of very, very, normal people out there who would be very, very, offended if you called them a pedophile for being attracted to a well-developed 16-year-old, considering that is the age of consent in most of the U.S.!

(Of course, just because it's legal doesn't mean you should. Attraction to someone who is physically mature is normal, but that doesn't mean you can have a relationship with them. Everyone is different, but I think it would be hard for the average adult, from their mid-20s on up, to really connect with a 16-year-old on the same level and have a healthy relationship.)

In some states, legal AoC is 18. Does that mean if your girlfriend is 17 that you magically become a pedo when you cross state lines from, say, New York to Pennsylvania? No, that's silly. What about countries where AoC is 19 or 20?! Is it fair to call someone a pedo because their boyfriend is 17, but YOU live in a state where 18 is the legal age? No, no it most certainly is not. Furthermore, there are often legal exemptions to AoC laws if your age is close enough to your partner's. This is because there's this little thing called common sense that says, "Hey, maybe this young lady isn't a child-hungry predator who's trying to victimize her 15-year-old boyfriend, just because she's 16." Common sense is good. Sadly, it also isn't that common...

Age of consent can also change depending on whether the relationship is heterosexual or homosexual. AoC for same-sex relationships is higher in many areas. Again, this is a legal distinction, not a matter of psychology.

A pedo is a pedo; even if the law changed to make their predilections legal, they would still be a pedophile! However, perfectly ordinary people CAN be in violation of AoC laws and not even remotely be a pedophile; it happens all the time.

In the U.S., you can have all the perfectly legal sex you want with a 17-year-old, but if you made pornography with that same 17-year-old, you would be in violation of child pornography laws. Again, this is a legal distinction put in place in an attempt to protect people from being victimized; it doesn't mean that, if you're dating a 17-year-old, you're a pedo if you own a camera but normal if you don't. Again, that is silly and ignorant.

It's worth noting that, sometimes, for various reasons, a person can be legally declared mentally incapable of giving consent.

Bottom Line: It is ignorant to confuse a legal distinction, like age of consent laws, with someone who is, for some unfortunate reason, attracted to prepubescent children. Age of Consent often has very little to do with whether someone is a 'child' or not. And, the reason the age changes from place to place is because there is no magical age where everyone suddenly becomes responsible, empowered, and able to make life-altering decisions with an acceptable minimum amount of competence and agency. The law simply picks a general age they think gives people the best mix of freedom and protection. Some people are NEVER responsible enough to drink alcohol, never informed enough to vote, never responsible enough to own a gun... but that's just the way it is, and there is an age in place for all of those things.

In the U.S., you can choose to join the military and possibly kill/die for your country at 17 (with your parents' consent), but you can't vote or be in porn until you're 18, can't smoke tobacco products until you're 18 or 19, and you can't drink alcohol until you're 21. These are all just best guesses at when the average person is responsible enough to participate in a given activity.

They are based on psychology, but do not reflect psychological dysfunction. There is a difference between a pyromaniac and a person who chooses to burn their home down to defraud their insurance company for a payoff. There is a difference between someone who suffers from a disorder where coprolalia (uncontrollable swearing) is a symptom, and someone who simply has a dirty mouth. There is a difference between a kleptomaniac and a burglar.

And, there is a vast difference between the psychological issues that make someone a pedophile, and the legal distinctions that determine Age of Consent law. It is ignorant to confuse the two, and there can be DIRE legal ramifications for the innocent people who are the victims of false accusations, or even the faintest hint of one.

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Technically it is under 12 for boys, 11 for girls.
Legally, many countries have pedophilia laws that redefine that word (or use other words) for higher ages.

Well, I'm under 18 myself, so I'm not a pedophile yet.

Reported.

Or British.

Actually, I think Tarantino has come a long ways and is finally making solid movies. His earlier ones were a crapshoot, as far as quality is concerned.

Yes, why else would I choose this name.

I'm so glad that I'm not the only one!

I would say the opposite. That as time goes by more and more people are aware of just how horrible vegetarians are.

Wow really? It's only best experienced if the first time you see the films, it's the original trilogy first. There's some big plot twists in that trilogy that are ruined if you saw the prequel trilogy first.

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