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This is a single post, hardly "Reddit".
Yeah, I was gonna say, this is a community moderator not a site admin.
An admin not stepping in does reflect on Reddit. They have shown they won't hesitate to step in when they actually care about the issue.
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The Karachi subreddit lol
Painting the whole of reddit based on the actions of a single non-admin moderator on a religious subreddit of all things feels dishonest as hell, tbh.
Well, an admin not stepping in also speaks volumes. They were more than happy to step in when we complained about API changes.
Yes, reddit admins are famously shit and famously have the most skewed priorities in history, but that still doesn't make this cherry-picked example a good representation of reddit as a whole.
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"U.S. states - As of July 2025, child marriage is legal in 34 states."
4 states have no minimum age (effectively 0).
2 states have a minimum age of 15.
20 states have a minimum age of 16.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_marriage_in_the_United_States#Marriage_age
Let’s be honest here, the United States aren’t the standard they claim to be.
You European? They don't have a leg to stand on here. Marriage age is buck wild over there! Europe! What's up with that?!
If not, check your country! Bet money that neither marriage nor age of consent is pegged at 18.
French Canadian.
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Indeed surprising for me, the trick being that it's not 18 when considering "marriage with parents and judicial approval", which are probably pretty rare but definitely possible in way more countries than i would have bet
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One ex of mine got married at 17, another at 18 (Appalachian milfs and I have a thing for each other). Neither decision was good, and people may think it's only a year, but the difference is drastic. At 18 you're legally an adult, but at 17 you aren't. At 17 you lack rights that your adult spouse has, like to file for divorce and to open bank accounts independently.
The minimum marriage age should be the age of majority and I don't care if your culture dislikes it. If you don't trust someone is old enough to sign a contract, why are you letting someone sign that contract? If they aren't old enough to purchase pornography, why are you letting them enter into a legal commitment with a sexual component? If they can't legally independently demand divorce why are you letting them marry at all?
We had to put a line between child and adult somewhere and 18 seems a pretty good place, but crossing that line grants an immense amount of freedom and independence.
Appalachian milfs and I have a thing for each other
Thanks, I blew air out of my nose harder than usual.
Glad to be of assistance lol. I used to joke that I don't have a type but a type has me
Too immature to be allowed to drink. Mature enough to raise children.
Yeah, no. Marriage should be 21 and up.
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That Wikipedia article is very poorly written and seems to contradict itself in the same paragraph multiple times. But I'm not surprised that the main locations for child marriages are Appalachia and the Jello-Belt. Backwoods hicks and ultra rural Mormons are the two main demographics i correlate with child marriage.
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So a random mod speaks for Reddit? What kind of BS is this post
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I know we all hate Reddit, but you don't have to sink as low as this. This is a single post, hardly reddit's stance.
well on the plus side we do the same thing with lemmy instances so at least we're consistent
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This is a stupid, dishonest and embarrassing post.
Hmm... Yeah... So because children were raped 1400 years ago, some loser cuck should be entitled to rape children today?
Sure buddy, age is just a number and the wood chipper is just a place
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.... Why is the little girl blurred out but the little boy isn't?
Islam.
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Don't be duped by fairy tale stories of any variety that seek to shackle your mind.
Religion. Leave it and open your eyes to the real world. Stop believing in fairy tales.
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Let's not pretend that this problem is somehow isolated to Islam.
Child marriage is legal in the US with a majority of states allowing it in some form and four states literally having no minimum age of marriage.
This is a religious people problem. The more of them you have the more of this problem you have. Religious people have all kinds of excuses for pedophilia and other things that rob people of consent and agency.
This seems like a subreddit rule. Has Reddit ever ruled specifically for or against this?
So I can still state a corrigendum? Cool.
Corrigendum: That's supremely fucked up, and anyone that advocates for that deserves to be punched in the dick by a thousand prize-fighters.
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