Bras For Sixes, Marriage Comes Next

This from Australia:

Breast-enhancing padded bras for girls as young as six are being sold in Victorian shops...

Tiny matching lingerie sets of lacy bras and knickers in many children's brands including Bratz, Saddle Club and Barbie, have hit the shelves aimed at girls who are barely old enough for school.

The Herald Sun last week revealed the latest Bratz Babyz range included sexually provocative baby dolls dressed in leather and lingerie.

I find this humorous. Every time one mentions that allowing gays to marry will open the door to other nefarious sexual practices, one is accused of using a slippery slope which is an argument, apparently, ipso facto fallacious. This analysis ignores several facts.

1) Countries in which homosexuality is no longer looked down upon have lower ages of consent. See Europe. And while "coorelation doesn't equal causation" when what is postulated comes to pass, one would expect a fair amount of respect. Moreover...

2) The reasons for sanctioning homosexual marriage are not caught up in any cogent philosophy, but are only part of a reaction against the ethos of Christianity. Homosexuals were allowed to get married because they "loved each other"; there is nothing in this simplistic platitude which would exclude lowering the age of consent especially since: A) people have traditionally gotten married at much younger ages and B) Christianity has been wholly discarded.

As an aside, I'm not certain what the Christian churches teach in terms of consent, though I am certain they would frown on the marriage of pre-pubescent children to grown adults. I do expect, however, that those who reject a lowering of the age of consent will be traditional minded Christians, thereby giving cause for the reactionary post-Christian contingent of society to allow younger and younger children to get married.

3) Reactionaries do not learn from history, and wholly reject the tradition of their ancestors. They take the world as they are given it, and increase the magnitude of the mistakes which their parents have made. As Chesterton once noted, "Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back."

The fact that allowing, say nine year olds to marry is today repulsive does not mean it will be equally so for tomorrow's progeny. In fact, it is especially unlikey given that each generation which rejects Christianity, or other orgranized creedal systems, must posit their own. Barring an unlikely step back, the only direction to go is forward, right off a cliff.

Such is what comes when one does not think. Oh Brave New World!