Originally posted by Eff Pandas
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Personalities and social norms are transitory indicators. Biological indicators are really not conducive to human development either...most evolved, educated people have kids later in life, past the biological age that nature indicates is the right time.
When the human brain is scanned and studied, including the decision making process, what was found and is now established neuroscience is: a human brain does not ethically mature to a point where we can make decisions as an adult until we are well past 25 approaching 30 years old. In other words before that age as we develop we are still compulsive, not capable of ethical maturity, and developing the tools we need to make informed decisions in a social nexus.
One can see the reasons for this. Fight or flight is a decision a child can make with a little common sense...But, when riding a car and hitting a parked car, for example, having the social conditioning to say "I know no one is watching but leaving my information is the right thing to do" takes years of consideration, empathy and brain development.
So imo when we see a 12 year old with the body and maturity of a 25 year old, a lot of the actual ethical reasons we should do the right thing are tied up with our social conditioning: A) we know that a younger person has less social status, hence we are taking advantage of them as an adult if we pursue an adult relationship. B) We also know that regardless of looks, this 12 year old is still developmentally a child! This person's brain has not learned how to yet process complex social and ethical decisions.
This girl is, biologically speaking, a woman who is fully capable of living in a social group of hunter gatherers, baring children, and knowing how to make decisions (run!!!! fight!!!!). This girl is socially speaking, not yet capable of making ethically mature decisions regarding life and death issues, characteristic of a modern human society that depends on brain development able to make complex moral decisions regarding life and death.
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