(It pulls the strings and makes them ring.)

Dream no more. Made in collaboration with Sharpski

But the big reason that you have these agreed upon rules of war (they pop up a lot throughout history; ours are just unusual in that they allegedly apply to all nations) is that you otherwise get spirals of vengeance that lead to massacres that do nothing to actually bringing a swift resolution to war (because, while war is awful, if you really must have war it is better to be as short and bloodless as possible).

I remember reading that the London Blitz started off as a mistake - German bombers got lost at night and dropped their payload in a residential district rather than an industrial one. Naturally, Churchill responded in kind. But the Germans did not go "ah, this is retaliation for that thing we did by accident" they went "the nefarious British are terrorizing our people, we must show them we will not be intimidated." Which provoked a similar response ad naseuam.

About what "Protect the youth" has become. Idk what it was like in other countries and I know that it very likely could have been stricter than it was in my country back then. But generally:

He was like "When I was 16, there were two kinds of adult content: Horror movies and explicitly depicted sexual content. The first made me have nightmares, the latter generally wasn't of much interest to me because it wasn't something I, as a 16 year old, could relate to. And other sexual content that was helpful and interesting WAS freely accessible. So whenever I saw an "18+" label somewhere, I just completely ignored that content because I knew it wouldn't be interesting at all to me.

But NOW, what's declared 18+ is even an excessive amount of swear words in streams! NOW, when I see an "18+" label, I don't know if it's horror movies that'll give some 16 year olds nightmares, if it's completely unrelatable porn, OR if it's educational sex ed, a 20 year old talking about their really healthy relationship with their partner (that includes intimacy), education about consent in BDSM (which affects 16 year olds as well, there's no age limit to curiosity), a live stream of wholesome musicians who happen to drink a couple of beers during kind of therapeutic talks, or simply people who aren't puritans and say "fuck" a lot! An 18+ label isn't worth anything anymore!"

And yeah... That's just it.

People who talk about body changes during their (first!) puberty are even labelled adult content. Even though puberty very much happens BEFORE adulthood. It's helpful content for minors. And it's labelled "adult" to "protect the youth".

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