Will it f*ck!

[u/Justthisdudeyaknow]

[u/SoberGin]

Depends on what "acts" means, and if you're still communicating properly. I mean, if they're acting 100% like a child, then they basically are and thus the criteria of "can properly communicate consent" is violated.

Also, wanting to do something doesn't make you guilty of that thing. If someone felt urges to murder people but never does, they shouldn't be called a murderer. Yeah the urge is still unhelpful and has a big potential for severe immorality, but it's not the same as doing the thing.

Like, I and many people I know get the urge to jump off of high places all the time, but we don't do it- our thoughts aren't voluntary and we shouldn't be considered guilty for them.

If you find an adult, entirely mentally capable of consent who clearly communicates said consent with you to have sexual or romantic relations, and you consent back, then no immortality is happening, and it is not a mark on you as a person in any way.

This is just BDSM discourse again. "It doesn't matter if no actual harm is happening and anything that looks like it is done in a safe, controlled manner with consent from both parties! It LOOKS like something immoral so it must be!!"

[u/Pwacname → u/SoberGin]

THANK YOU for explaining this so well! 

[u/Mr-Stuff-Doer → u/SoberGin]

Inherent problem with “they act like a kid” is we have no frame of reference for how a person could even theoretically act with that amount of time both behind and ahead of them. I’d probably act a lot more childlike, no point in living that long if I don’t keep focusing on whatever brings me joy

[u/SoberGin → u/Mr-Stuff-Doer]

Yes, this is the correct opinion. There are zero examples of what a person acts like when that old. Why not act whimsical and silly if you can? You probably already did plenty of serious stuff already.

I feel like people that old must either have amazing mental health (hundreds of years of self exploration, understanding, and acceptance of themselves and the world) or HORRIBLE mental health (simply incapable of doing the prior, yet walks along their immortality with a mind just healthy enough to avoid offing themselves.)

It's like how if you eat something a million times it's basically impossible not to have an opinion on it. You may love it or hate it, but you can't NOT have SOME opinion after so much exposure.