Quote Originally Posted by syme
However, as I understand it, you have been making a broader argument in this thread--you have been arguing that legal adulthood in general should be tied to sexual maturity. Is this not correct?

And "the age at which one can reproduce" is the narrowest definition of sexual maturity--it's the one a biologist would use--but it's far from the only one, and it was far from clear that it's what you meant. Again, puberty is a process that lasts years. For the record, by that definition, humans can be "sexually mature" as early as age 6
and to continue this, you still haven't elaborated at which point we are to be considered 'sexually mature', in spite of your claims that it is glaringly obvious. Your claim is, instead, that we should look it up ourselves and you don't want to regurgitate information. He's not asking you to outline the process of puberty for the sake of outlining the process - he wants you to identify where, within that developmental phase, your definition of 'sexually mature including the mental faculties to handle sex' kicks in.

Well I am going to close this thread; there are no new points in the poorly defined argument that started it, and it has degenerated into browbeating someone who cannot form an argument about to elaborate their stance on a subject they don't understand.