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 @owl. @Christmassy Merry Dude 
Feminist ideology is what spread age of consent above 12 throughout the west. 
 It has nothing to do with ideology, this is just my moral outlook in the matter. It seems every time this discussion gets brought up some information is magically unearthed and the age somehow gets lower and lower. 
 @owl. @Christmassy Merry Dude 
I personally don't care if it's removed entirely, if you want me to be consistent, but as far as a necessity? between 12 to 14. Earlier than that the biggest issue I can think of is pregnancies, which I'd not recommend. Otherwise, just standard child marriages as seen in Sneedville. 
 I think you’re just racist, frankly. 
 @owl. @Christmassy Merry Dude 
TND is indeed a lot more important than teenage brides!
Any nigger who laws a hand upon an White child will be fed to crocodiles. 
 I think you’re actually racist though. 
 @c59c8878 @owl. We are all agreed that niggers deserve death, totally. 
 No, I think this is an actual racist. Not the meme fake racism we do, just an actual racist. 
 @owl. @c59c8878 I mean
I actually hate jews
100% seriously 
 The idea people married super young is itself a Hollywood myth (just like the gayification of Rome/Athens; Pederasty was a form of nobles mentoring youth before the era of formal education and philosophers from Aristotle to Pythagoras, condemned nobles who abused their positions with young boys; sources in this video: https://odysee.com/@LeatherApronClub:c/black_bars_gay_greeks:e )

There were cases of people like Edgar Allen Poe and others who married very young girls, but this was not the norm. Most cultured married 16~20 going back centuries. Hollywood movies like Pretty Baby try to make this into the norm, but even the story of Mohamed is an outlier in its own time period. 
 @djsumdog 
Pederasty was indeed seen as disgusting by most Greek, but pederasty is not pedophilia. Do not conflate. Further, Romans did have zero issue with 12 yo getting married. 
 You do realize the Roman Empire had no problems with rape and infanticide, right? They also had different laws for citizens, non-citizens and slaves and did not view human beings as equals until the era of Constantine when he stopped persecution of the Christians.

You also realize the Roman fell apart and failed, right?! 
 

Pederasty was indeed seen as disgusting by most Greek, 

No it wasn’t. Pederasty was mentorship and didn’t have a sexual component. That’s modern Hollywood bullshit. Sexual abuse of children (if they were citizens or not slaves) was condemned. 

but pederasty is not pedophilia.

DID YOU NOT READ WHAT I JUST FUCKING SAID?! 
 @djsumdog @c59c8878 i think you need to look up the definition of pederasty. it's gay relationships between older men and young boys