re: "human psychological development doesn’t end until about 23-25"
This is an urban myth. It has been thoroughly debunked.
re: "our level of intelligence requires a longer incubation time"
Your example was dogs. They reach adulthood in around 1 year. We take longer, yes, about 14 years.
Brains don't "finish cooking"... they change continuously throughout our lives (just like our bodies do)
and even if there was some magical point of "finish cooking" that wouldn't make people below that age mentally incompetent.
you are jumping thru tons of illogical hoops in order to justify demeaning and degrading young adults. Stop it.
You are totally out of your mind. None of that is in any way related to anything I wrote.
All relationships have power imbalances. One partner is always richer, more savvy, better-looking, better-connected, more intelligent, etc. That does not make all sexual relationships rape.
Further age =/= power. It happens less often but there are many circumstances in which the younger party has much more power than the older one.
The Tanner Scale measures puberty.
Puberty is the line between childhood and adulthood.
It's really that simple.
If you think there is some other better line, then present your case. Casting dopey aspersions on me just makes you look like a fool.
you built a pathetic strawman here
"young and attractive" is not the relevant factor
SHE HARMED NO ONE is the point. "Crimes" which harm no one should not precipitate brutal punishments. re: "abuse happens so the law is there to combat that" but this law didn't combat abuse in fact it allowed the legal punishment system to abuse an innocent. You realize that laws can be bad, right? Some laws do far more harm than good. Those laws should be changed.
existence of power =/= abuse of power
Ronald Reagan controlled enough nuclear weapons to destroy all life on earth.
His wife, Nancy, organized Christmas decorations.
Galaxy-sized power imbalance. There's no way she could consent. Every time they made love it was rape.
(Power-imbalance dogma is absurd)
There are clear obvious scientific facts at work here. They are not technicalities.
How I feel does not make reality real. If I feel like a dog, I am still human.
Nature makes us adults. The process is called puberty. There are several visible objective secondary sexual characteristics which make pretty damned clear who is where in the process.
"finished developing" is a stupid red herring. Our bodies and brains never stop changing. There is literally no point of "finished developing"
Our brains are largest around age 13. We get adult brains along with our adult bodies during puberty. This is a well-known scientific fact.
If anyone is "insulated from the real world" that was a choice society made. Was it the intentional infantilization of young adults? Keeping them locked out of adult society means they stay mentally children. We created this problem. We can remove it.
What is "general maturity"? What is the scientific tool used to measure it?
or you just made up some bullshit to justify your bigotry against young adults aged 14-20?