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Headphoneus Supremus
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I don't blame them. Take a look at our worst enemy again, the media. Youth is portrayed as beauty time and time again. You have models and pop icons that have perfect skin, slim bodies, innocence. Does noone else seem to find it disturbing that a 40 year old guy can be looking at pornographic material involving 18 year old girls, and that is perfectly legal and commonplace, but if he so dares to venture into the 17yr old catagory this is sickening, against the law, immoral, etc? There is no OK switch flipped when someone turns 18. There needs to be some serious ammendments to the whole consent thing that is going around. Simply put, you can't just deem it legal once a person passes a certain age! Think of how silly this would be if someone was treated normally up to the age of 64, then at 65 BAM suddenly everythings different because they are a senior. Sorry gramps, you can't date under the age of 64 anymore, its statuatory rape!
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sadly you're probably right, with the state of courts today and this so and so complete innocence of the youth, they can't be held accountable for anything attitude. You know what would seal the case? A teenage girl raping and adult male. You can bet that she's not going to go to jail, and you can bet that people will be saying he brainwashed her into doing it too.
When I was a child, like 7-8 years old, my mother would always warn me about commiting crimes, and how criminals go to jail for life. In a related life lesson she taught me to run away from anyone trying to hurt me. I asked, well who's gonna punish the guy trying to hurt me? She said, don't worry, the cops will get him and throw him in jail! I asked, what if instead of running away from him, I stuck a knife in his stomach and killed him? Well son thats different. Why? I asked, would I go to jail for that? She had to think for a moment, but her answer was no, they wouldn't put a kid in jail. So I asked her, you're saying if an adult attacks me he goes to jail, but if I go and kill another adult I won't?
Originally Posted by Azure What I'm saying is that their sexual preference cannot be regarded as any more horrible than "normal" heterosexual/homosexual preferences. |
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Originally Posted by VR6ofpain It sure as hell can, and it is. |
I don't blame them. Take a look at our worst enemy again, the media. Youth is portrayed as beauty time and time again. You have models and pop icons that have perfect skin, slim bodies, innocence. Does noone else seem to find it disturbing that a 40 year old guy can be looking at pornographic material involving 18 year old girls, and that is perfectly legal and commonplace, but if he so dares to venture into the 17yr old catagory this is sickening, against the law, immoral, etc? There is no OK switch flipped when someone turns 18. There needs to be some serious ammendments to the whole consent thing that is going around. Simply put, you can't just deem it legal once a person passes a certain age! Think of how silly this would be if someone was treated normally up to the age of 64, then at 65 BAM suddenly everythings different because they are a senior. Sorry gramps, you can't date under the age of 64 anymore, its statuatory rape!
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Originally Posted by Azure Hmm...that's interesting. So, even if there was direct video footage showing the teen raping the adult, the court would still hold the adult accountable due to the whole power situation and how those under 18 cannot be regarded as mature enough to be responsible for their actions? Or are you talking about something else? |
sadly you're probably right, with the state of courts today and this so and so complete innocence of the youth, they can't be held accountable for anything attitude. You know what would seal the case? A teenage girl raping and adult male. You can bet that she's not going to go to jail, and you can bet that people will be saying he brainwashed her into doing it too.
When I was a child, like 7-8 years old, my mother would always warn me about commiting crimes, and how criminals go to jail for life. In a related life lesson she taught me to run away from anyone trying to hurt me. I asked, well who's gonna punish the guy trying to hurt me? She said, don't worry, the cops will get him and throw him in jail! I asked, what if instead of running away from him, I stuck a knife in his stomach and killed him? Well son thats different. Why? I asked, would I go to jail for that? She had to think for a moment, but her answer was no, they wouldn't put a kid in jail. So I asked her, you're saying if an adult attacks me he goes to jail, but if I go and kill another adult I won't?