10-02-2005, 02:17 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-02-2005, 02:20 PM by Universist.)
Quote:You rephrased it rather a lot since you suddenly CHANGED the age. Why? So which should I consider now, 15 or 13?
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I rephrased it to make a point. When exactly do you think there should be a legal cutoff? You dance on the head of a pin. Whether sexual relations occur at this age or do not occur at this age is not of import as we all know that it is happening and its terrible. A child is a child. And 13 years of age is not an adult in any modern sense including your world.
This is a question of legality.
Here is why. In your world if a man wants four wives and likes them young thats acceptable. Its not seen as child abuse, legally speaking.
Here it is. And you can bet that when its discovered that a child of 13 has sex with a man of 18+ that man will be charged with crime and prosecuted.
Your laws would allow this same man to use a shield of marriage to carry out acts of child abuse.
Quote:If you have reached puberty you can also have a child and you can also marry. Not many do, but tecnically you can, yes. And therefore the individual self has to conclude if they are able or not to take such a big commitment.
Who are you kidding. There are thousands of true accounts of women forced in to arranged marriages at the age of puberty who too terrified to say or do anything about it. Islam makes second class citizens of its women and any who would raise a voice would surely be "beat lightly" for doing so. Or murdered outright, which is also the truth. Its not about individual choice for these childern. You and I both know what I say has happened and is true. Just check out Amnesty International and Iran or Saudi Arabia or Yemen or Sudan to see if there is truth in my words. Amnesty International tells no lies.
Children of 13 years of age may experience puberty. And they may also be good at taking out the trash, cleaning bed rooms, or milking a goat. But they are not mentally ready to be cast into an arranged marriage and forced to have sex just because your laws don't protect them.
Are you really going to take the position that every girl who has attained puberty and is ready to breed is wide open for any muslim male who can get the father to arrange the marriage?
Universist