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[–] wick@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

What a weird and arbitrary number. I wonder where they got it from.

[–] Flyswat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

At what age have you become sexually active?

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[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 160 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Somebody tell Gaetz. That might be one way we get rid of him.

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[–] llamatron@lemmy.world 115 points 1 week ago (3 children)

"Consent"

Like consent even comes into it

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago

Con (people that) sent (isnt the smell of child rape)

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 46 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

If they can consent to extra sprinkles on their ice cream, they can be child sex slaves.

(Edit: I just wanna say I'm so glad I didn't need the /s for people to... Wait, I hope people aren't actually agreeing with this)

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[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 99 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So does that align with Mohammad 's second wife?

All religion is just a framework to be shitty.

[–] Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 122 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I dont know why you'd be downvoted, people should be reminded of this often.

The prophet Muhammad married his wife Aisha when she was 6 years old. According to the history he waited until she was 9 to start raping her.

Edit: he was 53 when he started raping his 9 year old wife. Fucking gross.

[–] hihi24522@lemm.ee 34 points 1 week ago

I would assume the downvotes are more for the “religion is a framework to be shitty” part. I’m also going to get downvoted for a similar reason.

Religion is justification for one’s moral compass / desires.

You see people who think it’s morally okay to rape kids or take away women’s rights or the rights of trans people or the rights of gay people etc. These people can’t justify morals (or lack thereof) logically so they use religion to give them a false sense of rationality. Hence you think religion is a framework for being shitty.

However, there are other people who use religion to justify “good” behavior like compassion and acceptance. These people are still reliant on fallacious beliefs, but their actions are not “shitty” so they get offended. Furthermore, others—who know people in this second category—may also think the remark about religion being shitty is not correct and is rude. That’s why it’s getting downvoted.

Fun sidenote, we can actually formally prove that religion or at least absolute morality doesn’t matter, and that people will just do what they want no matter what:


Proof. We seek to prove that people do whatever they want regardless of the existence of a god or absolute morality. We have three natural cases:

Case 1: Assume neither god nor an absolute purpose/morality exists. Then a person will default to their own morals. Hence, if neither exists, people will do whatever they want.

Case 2: Assume a god or purpose/morality exists that does not align with a person’s current morals. (For example a god that required you to strangle six puppies every year or required human sacrifice, or raping kids, or blowing up hospitals, or working in finance, etc.). Then this person will not follow that god/purpose because they are a bad god/purpose. Hence, a person will do whatever they feel is right regardless even with the existence of a true deity/purpose when that god/purpose does not share their morals.

Case 3: Assume a true god or purpose does exist and that it aligns with the morality of a person. Then that person will be living that way anyway, so the existence of the god or purpose has no effect on them doing whatever they want.

In each case a person will do whatever they want regardless of the existence or non existence of a god or a true purpose/morality. Q.E.D.


I should note that while I did come up with this proof myself several years ago, I learned later that Marcus Aurelius and other philosophers beat me to the punch by several centuries. But hey philosophy is the study of understanding existence, if we both exist in the same existence we can and should be able to discover the same facts about reality.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Edit, phrasing.

I hate Abrahamic origin religious systems en masse, especially when states use them to justify bullshit. Goes for western countries too.

Some folks probably think I'm targeting

[–] Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I hate Abrahamic origin religious systems en masse

Right there with you in agreement 100%. This iron age mythology superstitious nonsense needs to be eradicated completely, and only studied academically from a sociological perspective for what it really is, myth, as well as all the pain, suffering, death and horror it has caused human beings, and still is causing. Fuck religion.

[–] BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Bronze Age 😋 #Ackchyually. Root narratives of Judaism and so the Abrahamic tradition from roughly 2000-1200 BCE

Ignore me.

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[–] Theprogressivist@lemmy.world 89 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] shaserlark@sh.itjust.works 46 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I quickly googled this and mostly found sources like Fox News or Times of India that follow some agenda.

So here’s a Guardian article on the topic in case anyone was wondering about a commonly known source: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/aug/09/proposed-iraqi-law-change-would-legalise-child-say-activists

Basically there are some religious hardliners that are in the pocket of Iran that want to reduce the marriage age to 9 which would effectively end up in legalizing child rape. Opponents of this are being accused of „western decadence“. So basically after the ~~destabilization~~ liberation of Iraq politics are dominated by the same people that run Iran.

The people ~~suffering~~ enjoying their liberation are the normal people as usual.

[–] ogmios@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Opponents of this are being accused of „western decadence“

Those damned hedonists indulging in the luxury of... checks notes... keeping their dicks out of kids.

So basically after the ~~destabilization~~ liberation of Iraq politics are dominated by the same people that run Iran.

I mean, they were ~~destabilized~~ liberated by the same people...

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[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 45 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

As if women in these countries have the right to consent or not in the first place

[–] Texas_Hangover@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They follow muhammad right to the letter don't they?

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[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm so glad we brought freedom to that country 👏👏👏

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago

Mission Accomplished

[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 week ago

That's grim

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean, some US states have lower... We need to work on it.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

The youngest age of consent in the US is currently 16, unrestricted, but 14 if you're within a few years of the 14-year-old.

I didn't know the majority of the US age of consent was 16, I thought that was a European thing.

but only 12 states have the age of consent at 18.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent_in_the_United_States

[–] accarezzu@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Voltage@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] accarezzu@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 days ago

Nah, Islam was already ruined from the start since it was made up by a schizophrenic warmongering sex-obsessed pedo 💀

[–] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] classic@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Read the headline, immediately checked if this was some the onion type of magazine

[–] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Well, it has been that kind of day

[–] andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago
[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

They probably got Trump's blessing on this one

[–] shoulderoforion@fedia.io -2 points 1 week ago

It's The Religion of Peace, you see, which in looking the other way, in no way infantilizes the entire culture, which is good, because they're marrying the girl infants away

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