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#166 |
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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What about a mandatory ten year sentence for an 18-year-old having sex with a 15-year-old?
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Join Date: Jan 2003
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If you're asking me, I think the law should include an age difference requirement for statutory rape, as it does in many states.
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Join Date: Jul 2004
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He wasn't in for 10 years. I bet we hear from this guy again.
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#169 |
Junior Master Dwellar
Join Date: Mar 2003
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Let me ask you a question, 6. It's of a personal nature.
You're 24 now, if your profile is correct. At what age did you first have sex? Was it consentual? How old was the other party? How is this different in your mind from a teacher who sexually molests a student? How can a 12 year old know what they are getting into? A 12 year old is generally in the FIFTH grade!! Imagine you have a child in the 5th grade. You're saying it's ok for the teacher to have sex with your child as long as they end up married for 30 years?
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#170 |
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Join Date: Jan 2004
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I think comparing then and now is a bad idea.
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OC: If I could guarentee for a fact that my 5th grade would spend the rest of his life happy and in love and emotionally well, then sure, go at it.
Of course, there's no way to guarentee it. There is no possible way to guarentee anything. People used to get married at 12-14 all the time. *gasp* everyone must have been a monster back then. I'm so glad we're aware of it now. |
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Those 12-year old girl getting married things were often social relationships between families and not simply 'husband-and-wife' things. Why its wrong is self evident: a child cannot be assumed to have the faculty to adequately deploy reason over emotion in personal or business relationships requiring either a commitment, an understanding of the risk/reward or the consequences arising from the relationship/agreement. Neither can the child/young adult be expected to assume full responsibility for the consequences of the relationship or commitment. Enough minors have been taken to the cleaners such that a law banning the practice was finally enacted. Did you even consider the consequences if he had gotten her pregnant. I think its well within the purview of the law to forbid relationships where one of the parties is clearly not able to support a child emotionally or financially. Repeal the law, watch the atrocites mount and then you shall have the answer to your question.
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dar512 is now Pete Zicato
Join Date: May 2003
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All right. One more case doesn't make an epidemic, but holy cow. Don't these people read the news?
This one gets high stupidity marks for having her two year old in the back seat while doing it in the front. Teacher Has Sex with Pupil While Baby in Car
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People used to get their daughters pregnant all the time back then, too. Just because something was "back then" doesn't make it ok.
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All I'm saying is there are plenty of people over the age of 18 who aren't able to support a child, financially or emotionally. What's the law supposed to do about them?
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Here we go again...
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Now that IS abuse.
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