If ‘football’ hooligans decide that they want to have a fight with each other, at a deserted railway station, away from any football games that might be made unpleasant by their actions (and certainly well away from any non-consensual ‘victims’), why the fuck should we stop them?

Even if we do want to stop them, why the fuck should we waste enormous quantities of money sending them to jail for an average of two years each? You don’t get a much longer sentence than that for seriously battering someone who *doesn’t want to be battered*. Anyone sane would surely admit that consent is a pretty salient point…

The government has finally overhauled the law concerning sexual offences to take “consenting adult”-ness into account as the only important factor. It’s about time we did the same with all other offences.