Comment by usernamesaredifficul [he/him]@hexbear.net on Leonardo DiCaprio is 50 and is still dating 18 year old girls, does anyone else feel like this is wrong?

If we banned all age gaps bigger than 5 years

that wasn’t my thinking. A 30 year old dating a 50 year old I would consider reasonable similarly for an 18 year old dating a 16 year old even.

people do a lot of growing up in their early 20s and I don’t think anyone over 24 should be dating people under 20

The ol’ half your age plus seven thing strikes again.

It would be gross to apply that as a hard and fast rule, or to specifically go around chasing people of the lowest acceptable age specifically. But it at least captures the fact that as you get older, the acceptable age gap widens, but within limits.

It’s their business regardless. If you’re going to start taking away agency from 18 year olds, then we should shift the voting age higher too because that’s too young to make those kinds of decisions.

Adulthood vs. childhood is always going to face a fuzzy boundary and any line is going to be arbitrary for one reason or another. At a certain point, we have to consider people full legal persons with rights and responsibilities, and that includes the right to make mistakes. I think more restrictions and involving criminal systems is more likely to hurt than help. Affect this by way of social stigmatization, not legality.

Affect this by way of social stigmatization, not legality

A powerful rich man is above any social stigmatization an average person could level. Social stigma can only be used against people in your community

Then that’s a separate issue now isn’t it? :gui-better: That’s the point of a more equitable world - where people aren’t grossly more powerful than others.

ok but I was talking about how people should behave in the world we live in now not the world after we achieve socialism.

Ah so we’re talking about the actual world. Then we should take into account the idea of increasing the power of policing and disproportionate impact of that on the poor and already marginalized.

People see rich and famous taking advantage of this because that’s a system perpetuated, largely, by capitalism and massive social inequality. Same on the more pedestrian level. It’s usually wealth and status that attract younger folks to an older partner. These are the same folks who get away with murder and aren’t policed because they’re white and well off already. Advocating for illegality is increasing a police state without actually hurting the people we consider unethical

I feel like age 18 is still a good voting age

Hard disagree. Not about the monkey brain thing, but about legality binding people. So flippant about the policing necessary to enforce this kind of law.

A lot of people (on all issues) think of law and enforcement as different things, when in reality they’re inseparable.

Two sides same coin and all that.

I think more restrictions and involving criminal systems is more likely to hurt than help. Affect this by way of social stigmatization, not legality.

Yeah it’s funny seeing some here getting all “tough on crime” when it comes to this issue

“It’s ICKY and it’s okay when I don’t like it :comfy:” This comm rn.

Ah yes, giving childish responses like this are totally a reflection of how much of a big, smart boy you are.

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Leonardo DiCaprio is 50 and is still dating 18 year old girls, does anyone else feel like this is wrong?

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