Government provides a seevice to the immoral. If you want to have a system where the government is Daddy, the government is husband, the government is provider, and the man is just pumpin', squirtin', runnin', you know, aborting, calling someone like Owen, "How dare you . . . ." No. You live in an agrarian, familiy-oriented system, you're not going to have that. Every kid is accounted for. Every woman's watched. Every man is working. Everybody's protected and those systems are old. And America in its heyday was under that system. You allow the rotten fruit to ferment into alcohol. If you want to stop those things you complain about, you have to support decentralized, localized family units. You can't let girls 25 and alone out onto a city and not expect them to bang. They need husbands. They don't end up happy. They might say they want to be free, guys, they don't. They don't. They end up on pills. They end up with the depression and anxiety. They regret not having children and end up financially crippled.
The Federal Reserve in 1913 made everybody incredibly rich. You don't let the deadwood burn, the immoral rot, you subsidize it.
It's helpful to put any issue in its relevant context, which is watched. Every man is working. economics, for it's economics that forces the passage of laws so that you're not a burden to the state. People like to pooh-pooh economics as somehow complicating it with greed, but it really is the existential factor right after biology.
In another post, Owen writes,
For the record I don’t currently think a 13 year old should get married. In our modern society a 13 year old has the maturity of a 5 year old from our past. Many 25 year olds don’t have the maturity to own a cat. None of my tweets tonight are to encourage a modern teen to marry because their childhood has been extended and it’s very creepy.
My point is that I’ve seen glimpses into our past based on how I currently live in a farm based lifestyle and people used to be way more competent way faster. And without the welfare state the only way to ensure protection was family and the only way to ensure agricultural success was having a lot of kids from a very young age.
My point isn’t even debatable it’s obvious fact. Just sounds weird saying it’s ok to marry at 12 given our current life, because in this current society it absolutely isn’t.
Also, there didn’t used to be an “age of consent.” All sex outside of marriage was illegal. There was just an age of marriage consent. Without abortion and welfare sex outside of marriage is poverty and death.
