perfectlycrazydragon:
blackheart-biohazards:
Wow I love to see extremely racist purity wank first thing in the morning.
āFictional children canāt consentā. no one in fiction can consent, you dunce! Fictional characters do not have free will!
Youāve covered the important bits already but also:
Fictional children canĀ be capable of consenting in-universe.Ā
Ā I could (I wonāt because SQUICK but I could) write a story with a highly-gifted highly-mature ten-year-old who is at the developmental level ofĀ āourāā¦. say, thirty-year-olds.Ā Ā That particular ten-year-old can obviouslyĀ absolutely consent in-universe.Ā But real ten-year-olds are not reallyĀ thirty-year-olds.Ā Ā If nothing else, (but again, ten-year-olds have lots ofĀ āelseā in reality), actual real-life ten-year-olds really doing a thingĀ are still legally their parentsā responsibility.
1000% correct.
If ability to consent within the constructed fiction is what matters (thus conferring the ability to consent on most fictional adults)
then QED, it follows that it must be possible to write a fictional child who is capable of consent within the constructed fiction, and have that consent be just as meaningful as any fictional adult’s.
It’s all pretend. It’s all imaginary.
if I can imagine a 10 year old assassin, I can imagine I 10 year old hooker.
I don’t particularly WANT to, but it’s objectively no different.
