The age of consent needs to be set at eleven!

[Kelvin Mace]

10. My point is

that, as a society, we regularly abuse children. Take the Catholic Church, despite overwhelming evidence of systemic, institutionally-sanctioned child abuse, there has been practically no prosecutorial response. To put it another way, had this happened as a corporate day care, the CEO and board of directors would be facing prosecution under the RICO statues. I remember the witch hunt that ensued in my backyard over a completely fabricated case of child sexual abuse and yet the Catholic Church skates free with only civil suits to contend with.

We, as a society, pay MASSIVE lip service to protecting children, then epically fail to do so. Then, when abused children fight back, or simply act out, we punish them SEVERELY as adults.

We push children to become child-soldiers, teach them to kill, then refuse to provide any assistance with the mental damage that is done to them in war, driving them to substance abuse, violence and/or self-destruction.

We constantly pass laws (or try to pass laws) legalizing bigotry and censorship using the justification of "protecting the children", yet allow them to be slaughtered daily due to our worship of firearms to the level of sexual fetish.

I don't seriously think that letting 11 year-olds drive is advisable, but I am sick of the double standards children are subject to and am trying to drive home the point.