"Well, it'd be someone who was capable of rationally choosing right from wrong, with the intellectual capability to make that choice and the emotional stability to make that choice. Where that line is, specifically, I don't have an answer. There are some 10 year olds that I'd put my life in their hands, and some 50 year olds I wouldn't trust to water my plants, in the sound mind way, anyhow. Scratch that. Can't think of a better metaphor."

John pauses to breathe. "And beginning to speak or to not speak doesn't necessarily give consent because we're always communicating, even with just body language." John squares off to Jonathan.

SCORE! I see your [witty] and raise you [snark]