Which is more immoral?

[ilikeverin]

i dont think you should be able to stop anyone from getting married if they love eachother. noone has to live with any consequences but them.

Even if they don't love each other. What do you care?

How could you not care? *blink*  I'm not saying that a couple who is not in love but wants to get married shouldn't be able to... but it should be definitely be frowned apon.

Anyway, neither is immoral.

[ilikeverin]

Yeah, maturity ages change as you get older, and is why I think you should only marry within your range. However, we are getting off my belief that this is really about equality. A marriage of an 18 year old and an 80 year old is not equality.

exactly my point. Maturity does not come overnight like the law makes you think.

18 is the point where you become an adult in this country. It isn't exact since maturity varies for every individual, but we simply look at 'averages' and determine that people are usually mature enough at that point to make their own decisions regarding marriage. It isn't perfect, but it would be impossible and impractical to make some test in which everyone's maturity is measured.

BTW Earl, is it wrong for an immature 40 year old to marry a very mature 40 year old?

Haha nice try Dibble. There's always going to be exceptions. Maturity is a fuzzy matter anyways, as I said it is more about equality.

What's to say that, if the people truly loved each other, they couldn't make the relationship equal?