• MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca
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      Let’s be honest here, the United States aren’t the standard they claim to be.

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          That’s not accurate. In France it’s 18 , has been for a couple of decades actually. A judge can waive it in the interests of the couple but that’s super rare.

          It’s also not like you can marry a 15 year old to an adult. Statutory laws still apply, obviously.

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            Mostly the same in the US, most of the states that are 18 below require parental consent. Still not awesome but it’s not like a bunch of teenagers are getting married willy nilly.

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        Anyone who knows anything about the US would never claim such a thing…

        Only people claiming this are suburban trash living their sheltered life who need to feel superior after reading something like this.

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          This country is littered with pedophiles and 48 year olds who say “age is just a number!” Just before they marry a 14 yr old.

          Anyone who knows anything about the US

          Knows this.

          You are the one who is mislead my friend

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      One ex of mine got married at 17, another at 18 (Appalachian milfs and I have a thing for each other). Neither decision was good, and people may think it’s only a year, but the difference is drastic. At 18 you’re legally an adult, but at 17 you aren’t. At 17 you lack rights that your adult spouse has, like to file for divorce and to open bank accounts independently.

      The minimum marriage age should be the age of majority and I don’t care if your culture dislikes it. If you don’t trust someone is old enough to sign a contract, why are you letting someone sign that contract? If they aren’t old enough to purchase pornography, why are you letting them enter into a legal commitment with a sexual component? If they can’t legally independently demand divorce why are you letting them marry at all?

      We had to put a line between child and adult somewhere and 18 seems a pretty good place, but crossing that line grants an immense amount of freedom and independence.

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        Appalachian milfs and I have a thing for each other

        Thanks, I blew air out of my nose harder than usual.

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        Surprised at your comment. Just last month I read a review of all variations of milfs in the US. Top rated milfs were the Appalachian milfs. And it makes sense. They marry young and have kids when they are young. They have much less mileage on them compared to the overwhelming amount of milfs.

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      That Wikipedia article is very poorly written and seems to contradict itself in the same paragraph multiple times. But I’m not surprised that the main locations for child marriages are Appalachia and the Jello-Belt. Backwoods hicks and ultra rural Mormons are the two main demographics i correlate with child marriage.

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      Check age of consent laws for American states. Find that outrageous? LOL, next have a look at Europe.

      If it’s legal to have sex with a 16 or 17 year old, it’s legally consistent to allow marriage.

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        You are working under the assumption that the consequences of sex and marriage are the same. Much of the world doesn’t agree, as per your list.

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        You both need to check Aisha’s age before even comparing US or Europe to it

        Classical Islamic sources state that Aisha was six at the time of her marriage with Muhammad and nine at the time of its consummation.

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          I’m well aware, just commenting on modern age laws perhaps being crazier than most people know.

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            I guess being from Europe I don’t find the numbers particularly crazy, at least considering the context

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    Painting the whole of reddit based on the actions of a single non-admin moderator on a religious subreddit of all things feels dishonest as hell, tbh.

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        Yes, reddit admins are famously shit and famously have the most skewed priorities in history, but that still doesn’t make this cherry-picked example a good representation of reddit as a whole.

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          The post is not trying to explain what reddit is. The post title says “Reddit is now allowing advocacy of Child Marrige because they don’t want to be seen as islamophobes”.

          This is a true statement, since admins not stepping in means they are allowing it. The image is good evidence of that.

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            What do you want? Total censorship of every unacceptable position held by an individual user? I say let the child marriage advocates identify themselves.

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              I wouldn’t even mind them not censoring it. I am a fan of 4chan for it being such an unrestrained place, even if I rarely visit it.

              But one, reddit does heavily moderate it’s content. You can’t remove content you dislike and then claim not deleting something doesn’t mean you approve.

              Second, this is not just letting a user post what he wants, this is letting a mod use the power you gave him to force this shit through and delete, ban, and/or censor opposing views.

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        Reddit deleted my NSFW subreddit for no reason except it was competition for the girls they personally pimp out. They 100% take an active role and could deal wirh this if they wanted to.

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    Hmm… Yeah… So because children were raped 1400 years ago, some loser cuck should be entitled to rape children today?

    Sure buddy, age is just a number and the wood chipper is just a place

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      So a random mod speaks for Reddit? What kind of BS is this post

      As long as Reddit allows this mod to continue his job, they implicitly support his cause. It’s why they had to ban all the subreddits that were being creepy.

      edit: Time for OP to make a stink on Reddit about it. Not sure why they’re posting it here. It doesn’t concern me, IMO.

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    So I can still state a corrigendum? Cool.

    Corrigendum: That’s supremely fucked up, and anyone that advocates for that deserves to be punched in the dick by a thousand prize-fighters.

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    Let’s not pretend that this problem is somehow isolated to Islam.

    Child marriage is legal in the US with a majority of states allowing it in some form and four states literally having no minimum age of marriage.

    This is a religious people problem. The more of them you have the more of this problem you have. Religious people have all kinds of excuses for pedophilia and other things that rob people of consent and agency.

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    This seems like a subreddit rule. Has Reddit ever ruled specifically for or against this?