Question: If you had, for example: (a 20 year old woman in the body of a 10 year old), and (a 10 year old in the body of a 20 year old), which would it be right to be involved with? Furthermore, assume that the mental 20 year old never aged physically, and the mental 10 year old never aged mentally?

It's because of a discussion I had today based on a type of "Fey Folk" in a game. One person claimed that by choosing to play as a race of immortals that stopped physically aging at a young age, you were essentially a pedophile. I had never thought of it this way, and was curious to get other people's opinions on the matter...and this(above) is the way I phrased it to try to get him to see the other point of view.

Curious to see other people's opinions.

It all comes down to legality, regardless of morality.

Is it legal to "be involved" with a 20 yr old? Yes.
Is it legal to "be involved" with a 10 yr old? No.

Done.

I'm not asking about legality, I'm asking about morality. Laws are meant to support the morals of the age, the morals aren't supposed to support the laws.

EDIT: Furthermore, what is the basis for your age? The number of years since their birth? What if you put a 2 year old girl in cryogenic freezing for 16 years, would she be legal to have sex with? And if not, and you're basing it on their physical appearance, how do you determine what their physical age is? There are 18 year old women that LOOK like 12 year old girls...and the other way around. How do you judge?

Further EDIT: The thing that frustrates me the most about this topic is that apparently it is SO taboo that nobody will even try to discuss it, for fear of being socially destroyed. Hence your above reply; you were afraid of expressing your authentic opinion, so you turned to the laws instead.

Cyggles, I don't want to get arrested again.

That's interesting, but it doesn't answer the question

you can't judge a person by their mental age, because people at different ages in time acted in different so-called "maturity ages" compared to now so it's all about opinion and law

According to US law, if there is an animated character that looks like they might be below the legal age in a situation that could be considered to be sexual, the owner or hoster of that material can be charged equally to as if the material was child pornography. Even if, according to the game lore, that character is well above that legal age. (By a factor of 10x or more!)

neither. a 10 year old with the mind of a 20 year old is practically unstoppable, legal "leverage" would mean anyone to get involved with them would have to do whatever they wanted.

as for the 20 year old with the mind of a 10 year old, despite how fucked up it may be, many of these people exist

it is really a question of mind and body, those with adult minds will have no trouble getting what they want even if it is illegal, and those with the minds of children are completely enslaved by their emotions and desires, becoming shallow pleasure seekers who dont think for themselves

i bet you thought you were dealing with a hypothetical scenario, eh.

allow me to pose yet another fucked up situation where you have a 10 year old with the mind of a 20 year old, and a normal 10 year old

is it wrong? or not?

Indeed. Which i belive is stupid, Good Jesus, who would watch such a thing anyway.

I "turned to the laws" because they are what dictate what we can and can't do in modern society.

Generally speaking, age is measured by how old someone is.......

Since our laws come from morality as you claim, obviously it would be immoral. You answered your own question.

Edit:
As far as my own opinions go, you need to ask yourself why the law is how it is.

It's easy to see that the "Age of Consent" is based on the average mental capacity of adolescents in a given society under the age restriction. Sure, there probably are 10 year olds with the mental fortitude/intelligence of a 20 year old that might very well be ready on all fronts for sexual endeavors; however, there are also 20 year olds that suffer from mental illnesses that trap their mental capacity at the level of an average 10 year old.

Regardless of the law, in my opinion, age is based on mental capacity opposed to physical age. However, that does not mean that I seek out 10 year olds that are mentally 20 year olds; it just means that I believe a 10 year old with the mental capacity of a 20 year old could engage in sexual endeavors without feeling traumatized etc.

Long story short, I support this particular set of laws, but I would feel immoral involving myself with someone who was not mentally surpassing the age of consent.

Please, don't insult my intelligence by saying i'm afraid to express my opinion on a public forum that I have been active on for over 5 years.

But that's exactly the point I'm trying to make

Assuming that you have no way of knowing their actual, technical age, there is no way to identify their age, which makes this set of laws unfair and biased. And since games usually don't just throw that sort of info out there(would be kinda weird if they did, really), it makes the laws completely arbitrary.

It's like this; if a policeman pulls you over for speeding down a road because you were going "Too Fast", you know exactly what "too fast" is, because we have speed limits and speedometers. But judging physical age is pretty much the cop just pulling you over and saying that you were going too fast, and telling you to take his word for it.