02-Dec-2011, 12:01 PM
The age of consent for heterosexual sex in India is 16. For homosexual sex it is 18. Now obviously this is a double standard that is inexcusable. But I have a couple additional questions.
I take it as a premise that there should be something like an age of consent to protect children from predators. The idea being that The questions then are:
1. What goes into determining what the appropriate age of consent should be?
2. Which is better, 16 or 18?
3. Instead of a fixed age for all people, can certain developmental criteria (perhaps requiring a brain scan, for example) be used?
I take it as a premise that there should be something like an age of consent to protect children from predators. The idea being that The questions then are:
1. What goes into determining what the appropriate age of consent should be?
2. Which is better, 16 or 18?
3. Instead of a fixed age for all people, can certain developmental criteria (perhaps requiring a brain scan, for example) be used?
"Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian"
~ J.B.S.Haldane, on being asked to falsify evolution.
~ J.B.S.Haldane, on being asked to falsify evolution.