Like, it will eventually erode monogamy, and so cause more sexual inequality?
Meh this is already a fait accompli from what I see..
Don't be so vague, especially when you're making predictions!
This is excellent advice. I will do so.
Children (and I do mean children, I'm not talking about young teens) will be considered capable of giving consent to have sex with adults. Their parents will be discouraged from influencing their choice (even if it is "choice") of sexual partner too much. Rape will become a much less serious crime. A significantly smaller fraction of rapes will be persecuted. Western countries will have higher rates of rape than they currently do.
I think the first urge of a LessWronger reading the above is to pattern match such claims to weirdtopia. A place where sex with children and more rape is actually a good thing according to our current utility function just in really counter-intuitive way.
No. I want people to try and discard just universe instincts and try to just for the sake of visualisation consider the above outside of weirdtopia.
I agree completely that over time, our current beliefs about who is and isn't capable of giving informed consent to enter into a sexual relationship will be replaced by different beliefs.
I don't quite see why trending towards considering more and more people capable of consent is more likely than trending towards fewer and fewer people capable of it, or something else, but it's certainly possible. (If you can share your thinking along these lines, I'd be interested.)
In terms of my reactions, I am of course repulsed by the idea of people I don't consider c...
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