Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-34563899-20180218220444/@comment-28162607-20180219123104

I am of the opinion that no atter what the age of consent is in a country, adult/child relationships are wrong. In the Phillipines the age of consent is 12, does that mean adults having sex with 12 year olds is okay?

Regardless we know from the captions from the episode Tallahassee that they were in Oregon. Rewatch the episode if you do not know. And a simple Google search tells us the age of consent in Oregon is 18.

Also who cares if we don't know exactly how old Neal was? We know he was much older than Emma. Even if he was biologically 18 (which is next to impossible) we know he was over 300 years old. I refer back to TVD/Twilight. A 300 year old adult taking advantage of a child is the same as a 23 year old taking advantage of a child.

If you care to read my rebuttal, there is nothing "obvious" about Hook's statement, and you have to ignore everythign from that scene, the next scene and his character in general to make your statement slightly plausible. What I want to know if why you are determined to twist canon to make a character you dislike a rapist while ignoring a case of rape.