I was asked to respond to Sectionalism Archive’s (SA) recent post Going to Bat for the Age of Consent. He mentions my juvenalia pen name, and includes two charts I made in the article. SA writes intelligently and calmly in favor of the age of consent status quo of his country, the United States. Nonetheless, I have a few factual and philosophical disagreements with him. Before we begin, I want to make a few remarks on this topic. I believe this is the most taboo topic in the USA. Many people think anti-semitism and racism are more taboo in the United States, but this is not true if you do not weight the topics by intelligence. It is true that among university professors, racism and anti-se
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