I have seen this stupid fricking factoid come up every single time people are trying to make fun of libertarians ( which I am okay with ), but the factoid in and of itself is complete useless fricking bullshit and I know this for a fact.
Look at every single "backwards" 3rd world nation in the world and well into the 20th century most of them were marrying off their daughters at 13 or 14 or 15 years of age whenever there was an opportunity for the right price and status. Somehow. SOMEHOW! You want me to believe that WHITISTAN is the only place in the world which when it was living primarily on agriculture, and even centuries before there was any official attempt to have a legal age of consent for the world, with 3rd world tier quality of life, was somehow having parents go, yes I will wait for my kid to grow till they are 20 years old before marrying them off because we all know by 21st century standards that is the right time to marry them off, IS COMPLETE FRICKING BULLSHIT!
You would need a society so exceptional for that in their behavior and ideology that it does not match a single other society on the planet. STUPID R-SLURRED REDDIT FRICKS look at a case of some princess getting married off at 20 or some shit and go looookkk they knew what an adult age of consent was are those people fricking retarrded yes they fricking are THIS IS REWRITING HISTORY LIVE to match some contemporary bullshit moral ideals that pisses me the frick off.
EVERY FRICKING COUNTRY IN THE WORLD WHEN IT WAS LIVING LIKE POOR PEOPLE WOULD HAVE CASES OF SELLING THEIR DAUGHTERS OFF BEFORE They were 18 because age of consent is itself a modern contemporary concept!!
YOU DON"T SEE ANY OF THE CRUSADE ERA LITERATURE CALLING OUT MOHAMMAD FOR hAVING S*X WITH A TEENAGER!!! THEY LITERALLY CONSIDERED MUSLIMS TO BE DEMON WORSHIPPERS OR EQUIVALENT THEY WOULD HAVE GONE AFTER MOHAMMAD TO SLANder HIM WITh thAT if THEY ACTuALLY BELIEVED IN AN 18+ AGE OF CONSENT IN THOSE TIME PERIODS!!!!
THE CONCEPT OF TEENAGERS WASN'T EVEN A REAL COMMON THING UNTIL THE 20TH CENTURY!!!!!!
FRICKING REDDITORS! FRICKING REWRITING HISTORY TO MATCH MODERN VALUES BULLSHIT! FRICKING R-SLURS EVERYWHERE ONLINE!!!
I dislike liars and especially condescending moralist liars.
Conclusion:
Stop rewriting history to match your current day moral values. It is bullshit and ruins everybody's day.
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Usually people are just arguing by proxy when this subject comes up. The real argument is something like
>look they used to do it back then so it must be okay
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Yeah exactly. To steelman the Reddit revisionists' argument even further: it's not what you're saying, it's why are you saying it?
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"Why do you care so much?"
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
-- Tacitus
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https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2018/02/brief-history-teenagers/:
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