The Idea afloat is that we should somehow feel more empathy for one victim than another.
Your example isn't statutory rape, though.
My example is what happens very often without physical violence to many people including minors. The point was to illustrate indifference to an attack that can affect people just as profoundly.
But you are still not distinguishing between statutory rape, where the sexual intercourse is called rape because it involves a minor and for NO other reason, and one where coercion was used
You can have a 17 year old and a 19 year old have willing, wanted, consensual sex, and in some states it is classed as rape due the the age of the younger member, while in other states it is not so classed.
In either case there is no "victim" as both are willing participants.
When there are arbitrary laws there will be arbitrary results.
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