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(03-04-2015, 06:37 PM)Presidio Wrote:(03-04-2015, 05:31 PM)Coatleque Wrote:Condescension not withstanding, there are a number of factual and structural problems with this argument.(03-04-2015, 05:22 PM)Presidio Wrote: Any depiction of sexually active minors makes me uncomfortable, yeah.
And it makes me far more uncomfortable if the person isn't a minor, because it fringes on pedophilia.
Such uncomfortableness is merely a product of the society you were raised in. Â You must separate the accepted 'norm' from actual biology and learn some history. Â It wasn't until the mid 1800's in real life that people were suddenly considered "minors" under a specific age. Â That was when the conservative right lobbied for age of consent laws to try and cut down on human sex trafficking and forced marriages.
Before then, you were almost a full adult by 14. Â That is when biology naturally takes over. Â That is when nature intended the human species to be mature. Â If a child is not emotionally developed enough to handle life by then, it is society's/the parent's fault, not nature. Â Not the Government.
That being said, the government is still in charge here, sadly. Â And if they say such things are illegal, then you must contend with their backing of force. Â All I'm saying is that before you say "That makes me uncomfortable", take a look at WHY you feel that way and put it in perspective over the course of all of human history. Â If your view makes absolutely no biological sense, perhaps you should reconsider it.
First of all, how people felt in the past about the age of consent is irrelevant to the subject of what the age of consent should be today. That's an argument from antiquity or tradition, which has nothing to do with your later submitted argument from biology. There's a big problem there in that we actually know more about biological development today than people did in the 1850s...
Secondly, people are not fully matured even on a simple biological level at 14. Puberty does not end until age 16 on average (source:Â http://www.pamf.org/parenting-teens/heal...rowth.html). And there are many more ways to mature aside from puberty (neurological development takes much longer for instance).
Finally, your entire post is off the topic of "how to cope with minors doing things adults shouldn't see" and has instead chosen to defend the idea of adults seeing these things. I am not talking about what the age of consent would be in Eorzea. We aren't talking about realistic RP or what we personally think the age of consent should be. I appreciate the discussion, but this is not the place for advocating for lowering the age of consent to 14.
You have been told by many people how you can deal with your discomfort in RP. You have been told how to avoid it. All it takes is a simple IC and/or OOC question of the other person in-game.
Crofte is -not- defending pedophilia, or advocating anything. She is using history as a context for what might be how culture in Eorzea operates, and there are examples in-game that she might be right.
Of course the game does not depict underage sex, nor should it. However, Eorzea is not a perfect world. People will do different things with that idea. Avoid what you don't like, but don't come here trying to change peoples' RP. It won't work, and is just making you seem like a player who can't separate OOC from IC.