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Re:Richard Stallman is coming back to the board of the FSF by megous on Sunday March 21, 2021 @10:17PM (#26536162)
Maybe you can tell us what's so magical about the age 18, that warrants calling people who support lower age limits pedophiles. (it doesn't even match the psychiatric definition)

Brain is not fully developed by age 18 anyway, not by a long shot, and there's no obvious developmental milestone there either, like puberty, or whatever.

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Re:Richard Stallman is coming back to the board of the FSF by cambalache on Sunday March 21, 2021 @11:56PM (#26536691)
Exactly , on one hand you have an age when most humans are capable of conceiving and have fully developed secondary sexual traits (nature's way to say a person is sexual mature) , say around 14/15 and on the other hand you have the age of a fully "developed" brain, around 25, when at least in theory a person is mature enough for all intents and purposes.

18 tries to establish a sensible balance from both extremes, but there is nothing magical or moral about it when compared with 17 or 19 or whatever in than range.

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