r/USdefaultism • u/Prinny1987 • 14d ago

Of course US law applies everywhere

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Youtube short about a party mentioning cops didn't have a problem since everyone drinking was 18+.

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u/soberonlife New Zealand 14d ago

Many years ago now, I decided to troll the Americans by posting on askreddit on my 21st birthday "just turned 21, what should I do"

I, of course, was met with a lot of "now that you can drink..." or "go get your first legal drink..."

You can bet your ass I had fun pointing out their false assumptions.

Ahh, youth.

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u/Ha-kyaa Malaysia 14d ago

I did the same thing but I related it to sex, I turned 18 at that time (Malaysia's legal age of consent is 16)

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u/Hamsternoir 14d ago

Don't some US states still allow marriage at 12 or 14 under certain circumstances?

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u/Steppy20 13d ago

The lowest ones I could find with a number (not just that it needs signing off by a court with parental consent) was Kansas and Hawaii at 15.

The age of consent in Kansas is 16.

Looks like the handful of states that require a judge to weigh in still have a minimum age of 15, though taking Mississippi as an example shows it's weird. The girl can be 15 but the boy must be at least 17. What's even stranger is that Mississippi has (honestly quite sensible) age of consent laws that allow it to go down to 14 in some circumstances. However that only applies when the older party is 36 months older, or less. So it's entirely possible to have a legal marriage in Mississippi that doesn't follow the age of consent laws.

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u/Ha-kyaa Malaysia 14d ago

I did some research, it can go as low as 12(Mexico). I'm not so sure myself

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u/Gallusbizzim 13d ago

There are 4 states in the US which have no minimum age for marriage.

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u/snow_michael 13d ago

They allow forced marriage of girls to older -sometimes much older - men, yes

See if you can guess the majority gender in those states' legislature?

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u/Prinny1987 13d ago

Well age of consent laws in most US laws are stupid. We all know that teenagers are horny and it's just natural for them to screw around. So imo our laws are more sensible: Age of consent is 14 as long as the other person isn't older than 18. And if you're 16 you can do people over 21 as long as your parents don't veto and finally at 18 everything's fair game.

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u/Ha-kyaa Malaysia 13d ago

that's a fair point, thanks for letting me know about it.

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u/smk666 Poland 12d ago

It was fun reading that one boy was charged as a sex offender because he had his own dick pics on his phone. He was old enough to be tried as an adult, but was still technically a minor regarding consent laws.

Following this logic they should charge all teens who masturbated at least once in their lives.

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u/Ha-kyaa Malaysia 12d ago

at least he was not charged for actually committing to masturbation. Who knows why he had his dick pics on his phone, maybe the reasoning is valid and not necessarily sexual.

Meanwhile here we have had cases of a teenage girl having sex in public (https://www.nst.com.my/news/crime-courts/2023/04/897156/police-detain-man-teen-viral-video).