Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.
Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone.
You cannot properly bring up children when you are 69 or 70 and they are 12 and at the height of their madness. You can physically do it, but I don't think it's morally justified.
I think we all have madness in us, it's just that I've realized mine and found a way to let it out.
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.
As soon as you reach a certain age, you're thrown onto a kind of mental scrap heap.
In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.
It takes madness to find out madness.