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To you and Rich, I was referring to my previous post.
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Sorry, leapt into a long thread and didn't read 100% of it. My fault.
I was refering to an earlier point that asked that question, and was repeating it to introduce my reasons just why we don't, and why that makes sense.
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Thus far, all of the people who are going on about children having relations at a young age seem to be bringing up speculative points. "It COULD be better for them. It COULD make society a better place" how? How could it? How, in the world, would society be a better place if we allowed children to experiment sexually?
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As far as my current train of thought goes, this would merely be an aspect of a much more grown up society, one where sex is not a taboo, and children are introduced to the idea at a young age and made away that's a primal urge as natural as eating, drinking and staying at the right temperature. They won't be embarassed or intrigued by it so much, and we can teach them to perform sex safely and guide them as to its appropriate use. If a society that doesn't titter at matters of natural fact and can eliminate the dangers of a commonplace activity isn't a marked improvement, what would that constitute?
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We have a higher level of consciousness and are not driven by our primal instinct - animals, however, are. And like i mentioned prior, we have an emotional connection that is often established during sex.
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Indeed we do have higher brain functions, which is exactly why people have come up, completely spontaneously, with the ideas that children shouldn't have sex and such. It's arbitrary, and we rationalise it with ideas that have been impregnated in us throughout our lives (that's not to in itself decry them as bad). And animals such as swans and other birds do form lifelong partnerships that any ornathologist could describe as love, or a primitive form of it. I don't think allowing free sex would completely eliminate human emotion. People would still find love-making to be an immense expression of love, maybe even more so if children can be tought the romantic notions of the activity.
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Not only will they lose respect for their virginity…
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I've never understood this. Preach to me here : just what's so special about virginity?
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…because of some random Africans doing it with Chimpanzees, we eventually got a mutated form of SIV (HIV).
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I was unaware of this theory. I understood that humans consumed chimps and contracted the amalgomate retrovirus that the chimps contracted by eating monkeys.
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I'm talking about world experience. Kids shouldn't be getting blow jobs before they see their first R rated movie. It's just a matter of how children respond to things, and how they would react to something so much more mature than what they're used to.
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What if the child really, really wants to? If he comes up and asks you why not, exactly how are you going to justify it to him? Sentimentally speaking, I know how awkward it is to lose faith in those Blue Remember Hills of innocence and realise there are other substantial qualities to life, but really in the end we're denying intelligent beings of something they could be emotionally prepared for if we only let them grow uninhibited.