07-12-2019, 12:04 PM
(07-11-2019, 08:49 AM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: It's tough to say. Abusing someone's naivete or mental illness is really hard to prosecute. There are a variety of examples often with the end goal being taking people's money and it's not always black and white in terms of legal guilt of the offending party (see: seed faith scammers).
We actually already do this with statutory rape and children. Because we don't believe that a child has the emotional maturity to make that decision for themselves we criminalize the action performed by the other person whether the act was consensual or not.
