The Vietnam war and Jerry springer are responsible for agecucking.

[Aladin]

The voting age used to be 21. Jerry Springer caused it to be lowered to 18, which caused the age of majority in the US to also be lowered to 18.

an argument used to lower the voting age to 18 was that the age to go to war was 18, but that used to be 21 as well, until the 1940s.

Draft age is lowered to 18 | November 11, 1942 | HISTORY

On November 11, 1942, Congress approves lowering the draft age to 18 and raising the upper limit to age 37. In September 1940, Congress, by wide margins in both houses, passed the Burke-Wadsworth Act, and the first peacetime draft was imposed in the history of the United States. The registration...

www.history.com

The voting age change was pushed for in the 1960’s: https://www.history.com/articles/vietnam-war-draft-voting-age-26-amendment


So many people believe if people of a large age difference are having sex, there needs to be a minimum age by each party in order for it to be moral. People will claim it has something to do with brain development, but this, as @Slayer has made a thread about, simply an example of “post hoc rationalization.”

Very few people have serious and consistent beliefs

everyone is just post hoc rationalizing whatever makes them feel good in the very moment

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Why is someone like @Amnesia sleeping with 17 year olds bad but 18-20 year olds fine? Well it’s because of the Vietnam war and Jerry Springer, not because of some bs brain development (which let’s be blunt none of you know the slightest thing about.)

 

[Slayer]

bumo

 

[Aladin]

bumo

“I believe it’s wrong to screw 17 yo’s but fine to screw 18 yo’s because Jerry Springer said if someone can fight in war then they should have the right to vote.”