Nocilol

[Melone Marshe]

Know it's already more or less an open/close discussion as is, but if I may give my own opinion...

While it's normally based on how old the person is mentally, physically, and chronologically...it's my opinion that chronological and physical age both shouldn't matter whatsoever. Age is simply a tag placed on people as a means of keeping some order on things, and physical age...well, it's not someone's fault if they don't grow to a reasonable height or build to which they actually -look- like an adult, why should that stop them? That being said, one's more or less just a tag and the other is something beyond one's own control. While childbearing should have a specific physical age, since being too little would cause horrible complications, that's sortof linked to the whole "being unable to control how physically grown up you are" - however, if the person's mature enough to know how such risks can turn out, then again, they have every right to...I'm 20, but I get mistaken for 14. I'd like to have children someday, and I certainly wouldn't choose not-to simply because I don't "look like an adult", you know?

Mental age...if someone's certain of what they want and are certain to a degree of their feelings and the possible outcome of things, then there's no reason they should be stopped, if my opinion.

I know a lot of people would probably disagree with this outlook, but...there was a time when the average lifespan of people was 35 years, and people were getting married at 12-14, possibly even sooner. The only possible difference between then and now is average lifespan and, perhaps, the possibility that people of that age group are considerably less mature/responsible than kids were in the past, which doesn't seem all that far-fetched. In the end, a lot of things could work out better if they were allowed/disallowed based on people's maturity and responsibility - games, violent or adult movies or games, drinking, smoking, driving, going to war, owning a credit card...all of these could easily be handled properly if someone was of the right MENTAL age...unfortunately that method has too great a probability for error, thus we stick to the chronological tags and requirements we're given.


Sorry if my post comes off as a bunchof babble, not terribly great at explaining stuff. ^^; Can't believe my first posts here's in a thread about loli...