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Hello,

At 49 years old, I think that as you get older you understand why there is an age of consent. You might think or know at 15 what you want, but it changes as you get older. You also have to think about this, when do your parents stop taking responsibility for your actions.

"The age of concent" has nothing to do with you agreeing to have sex or not. It is the age that the society you live in says it is legal to have sex. Rape ( a crime I consider worse than murder ) or pedophilia ( which I think is worse than rape ) should be punished very hard.

I am not an American, I am English. We let people drive at 17, when we think they are sensible enough, guess why I think 17 is a good age for sex now.

Steve

You bring up quite an interesting point. ''In the society you live in.''
It really does all come down to the society you live in. When I try to apply that to my country (The Netherlands) the age of consent is 16. However, in comparison with e.g. The USA 16 year olds over here are in a different stage of their life, how weird that might sound. The average age of people going to college/university here is 17 I believe, so that also means a big deal of 16 year olds are living the college life. In whatever way you might look at it a part of the college/university life is  exploring yourself, also sexually. Another thing is that the legal age for alcohol and clubbing used to be 16 (alcohol age is now 18, not for too long though probably).  What comes with going out for some people, also sex. The fact that the Netherlands used to be, and still is rather revolutionary with alike subjects also helps I suppose.
The age of consent will always be a difficult subject though. There's a difference between a 15 y/o having intercourse with a 17 y/o, and a 13 y/o having sex with a 22 y/o.



About the CEO getting fired is something I can understand, however I can also understand the criticism that it's getting.

Mozilla Firefox is a huge brand and company, in the world we live in now tolerance towards homosexuals and the LGBT community is growing and it's getting more accepted whether you like it or not.



If we look at this graph (it's data from 2010 so not too accurate) you can see that FF is (or atleast used to be) more popular in Europe than in the USA. Homosexuality is also widely more accepted in Europe than the USA a.f.s.i.k , so with the CEO staying whilst his views regarding gay marriage being public they could've lost more users than with him staying.

For myself I think gay (LGBT) rights should be equal everywhere anyway, but my opinion doesn't really matter.

I'm aware it doesn't only depend on that, but it is a (big) part of it.

For me the age of consent is a law but not necessarely a guideline. It all comes down to the individual if they are sexually active or not. If somebody feels ready to do so, and is properly informed and educated I think it's okay for them to have sex. In my opinion sex education should be done by the parents, and not by schools by the way. At least, mainly done by parents and the part about STD's is something for sex ed class. Of course I'm talking about the age 14/15+, as I don't believe the true desire for sex is in the mind for teenagers younger than that.

Hello,

What's all the fuss about? Being gay or pedo doesn't make a person bad. It's just a matter of taste.

E.g. Possessed is both, and he is a good aao25.com admin.

And you have bad taste.

People keep talking about the age difference between partners, what does that have to do with anything.

It is about "consenting" sex partners and when someone is old enough to know what they want. Biggest difference I have had personally is 7 years. So were they 16 and me 23 and is that wrong?

College/University is 17/18 years old here normally so no problem with them exploring.

Everyone is different, some people develop earlier some later. This is part of the reason there is a need for a standard age for consent.

Steve

I don't see a reason for 'Homos' to have any speacial right or law to favor them, as in the first place they are Humans and Citizens,

I'm going to stop you right there. Nobody is requesting laws or special rights for homosexuals. All that's being asked for is equal rights, mostly the right to get married.
I will agree that some of the people in the homosexual community take it to the extreme and make everyone else look bad, but that happens for every group, even heterosexuals.  How are the crappy "reality" shows like "Jersey Shore" which depict heterosexual people being complete fucking idiots any better than some of the people in gay pride parades? It's not. It's probably worse.

I honestly don't care much as it doesn't affect me. I'm not an advocate either way, but going out of your way to be against homosexuals getting married is ridiculous. What's the worst that can happen? Nothing.
If you're super religion and think they'll go to hell then why do you even care?

So if he was openly racist or neo-nazi, he should still be able to keep his job as a face out for the company? I think not, the subject does matter. especially when it concerns human rights.

Well American was racist and pro nazi. Dont get your point really

So gays want to get married fine, get married.. They want a church wedding, but they dont want to all that comes along with being a member of that church. Christianity does not conform to same sex marrage. So why do they want to force that upon the church. Get married if you like but you cant force you agenda on anothers agenda. Make your own church with you own do what ever you want rules, who stopping them?

I haven't heard about any special laws regarding homosexuality over here, but then again we've got gay marriage and such things for quite a while now.

@No-Nonsense about the church marriage that's something I can understand the church being opposed to. Marriage by law should be available for all genders, marriage by religion is a whole other case imo. I'm not religious at all myself, but if homosexuality is against the beliefs of said church I can understand them not accepting gay marriage. I do think that there's a place for homosexuals in religion. Maybe one day, as religion evolves as well it'll be acceptable.