Bill Maher is a bloody hypocrite

[AbbathTheGrim]

The law is the law.

But "adulthood" is not defined by a specific age. Adulthood is not something tangible like going Super Saiyan:

where you can see a visual difference between a "then" and "now". Not SS: black hair, Super Saiyan: yellow. Adolescent: ????, Adult: ???? 

Fact is that there are people who don't seem to have the mental capicity to handle their sexuality responsibly and with owneship even after they reach their age of consent, fact is that there are people who grow up faster than others and can become mature enough to make decisions regarding their sexuality.

Age of consent doesn't take any of this into account, age of consent is just a blanket law that makes us feel better about our society and give us a sense that we are protecting children, which of course is important and we should totally do.

There are countries where minors who have sexual relationships with others have no legal consecuences. It isn't the act that is forbidden, but the age of one of the partners what can land someone in prison. We are trying to protect minors from being coerced and manipulated into sex, which is something important, but there is no effort or mechanisms to evaluate whether both minors really didn't know what they were doing and if one of them, in spite of being a minor legally, acted with malice and coercion over the other minor. We just take their age as enough argument to consider both innocent, what is completely hypocritical.

If the act of a minor having sex is not what we are trying to evade (because no legal actions are taken against minors having sex with each other) and what we are trying to evade is coercion and manipulation from an adult, we should do a case by case research and find out whether the minor was mentally mature to consent or not.

I don't think Maher made the above claim and took that stance from an informed position. I tend to agree with Maher most of the time, this time I don't.