consent

What do you think? How should age of consent laws work? Should there be a bright line age? Should there be a bright line age difference? Should there be a sliding scale of age difference based on age of the younger party? Or a combination of these? Should there be a rule that there's a...

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In the shipwreck thread, I made a statement that any distribution of property and power that is consented to would not violate libertarian principles. This was ratified by shanek and reformulated by Tormac. This got me thinking, and the smoke from that process has cleared enough for me to see...

On the plus side, New South Wales finally brought our age of consent laws into line with those of the rest of the nation and lowered the age of consent for homosexual sex to 16. This long overdue move is to be applauded. Unfortunately, one of our esteemed parliamentary representatives used...