Hi Fuzzy,

"But what I want to do is excel at this, I want to do my oral presentation at the end of the assignment and blow everyone out of the water, it gives myself the ability to make a statement and still stay relatively safe."

I think you have a good view of this assignment. At the very least, it gives you the chance to practice what you would say if you were arguing this in front of people who might actually have the power to do something about it. Come to think of it, you may be doing just that. Students graduate and then assume all manner of positions in life. Who knows what future leader you may be persuading with your arguments.

Here are some thoughts:

1) Young people of all ages are today being tried as adults. This means that they are expected to assume the responsibilities of adulthood and bear the consequences if they do not. Full responsibility for your behavior without full rights is tyranny.

2) If you are too young to consent to sexual intimacy, then you are too young to be held responsible for it.

3)AOC laws do not prevent young people from having sex. They only prevent them from having sex with someone old enough to know what he/she is doing. This however, would not necessarily be true if there were proper education and no AOC laws to inhibit the free choice of ALL people.

4)AOC laws effectively outlaw the sexuality of an entire group of people; kids.

5)One size does not fit all. AOC laws are a simplistic reaction to a complex dynamic. It is irrational to use shallow thinking to solve deeply complex problems.

6) AOC laws prohibit rather than protect. Prohibition is a failed concept that has never eliminated any human behavior in which people wanted to engage.

7)AOC laws are merely a substitute for good parenting and mentoring.

8) Educate kids in critical thinking so that they may make quality decisions without being subjected to the winds of political expediency. Kids should be taught HOW to think, rather than WHAT to think.

9) The right to say "no" without the inverse right to say "yes" is disempowering to young people. Furthermore, it is insulting, degrading, and invites rebellion.

10) As the age of puberty goes down the age of consent goes up. That is inconguous with common sense.

11)Repression of the sex drive in the young results in an increase in violent behavior. Sex and violence should be thought of as polar opposites rather than wedded bedfellows.

Feel free to use any of this that you may feel useful. I hope that it may at least give you some ideas with which to work. Good luck on this project.

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