Tickle Me Child Rape?

[Borachio]

You have been there, I take it?

 

[Quackers]

Spain is fine. Probably at the lower end of the western european countries but it's an order of magnitude better then Eastern Europe.

 

[Farm Boy]

Spain always struck me as Europe's trailer park.

Heyheyhey, nothing wrong with being the proud owner of a mobile home. Probably a crapton greener than living in a decadent and wasteful McMansion. Who is enlightened now biznatches?

 

[Borachio]

Spain is fine. Probably at the lower end of the western european countries but it's an order of magnitude better then Eastern Europe.

Portugal has generally been a poorer neighbour.

But depending on what you define as Eastern Europe, I'd say Albania is the real underdeveloped country. So poor they won't let it into the EU.

But the Albanian Mafia now. That's doing very nicely thank you.

 

[Lone Wolf]

Also still waiting for what meaningfully distinguishes 16-year olds from 15-year olds from 10-year olds, here.

10-year olds are definitely very much distinct from 15-year olds! I didn't even have a proper sexual drive at 10.

15- and 16-year olds aren't really distinct. My beard had really started to grow at 16, so here's one distinction.

And yeah, I don't mind the subject of the OP getting punished, but referring to what he did as "child rape" is too hysterical.

 

[AlpsStranger]

Heyheyhey, nothing wrong with being the proud owner of a mobile home. Probably a crapton greener than living in a decadent and wasteful McMansion. Who is enlightened now biznatches?

Hah. Sad truth is, I lived in a trailer until I was like 3 so I don't have any room to talk

 

[Quackers]

So you insulted yourself?


Link to video.

 

[AlpsStranger]

Haha, yeah, I guess

At least my national pastime isn't animal cruelty

 

[Borachio]

Don't you have pin the tail on the donkey?

 

[Quackers]

We stopped using German heads for our footballs a long time ago

 

[Borachio]

You say that like it's a bad thing, Quackers.

 

[Crezth]

But getting into life-ruining moral outrage (which is different from handling a criminal case) over something that's legal in the vast majority of the western world will rightly make you look completely backward and antiquated.

Boiling it down to a case of majority-based relativism does nothing to tell us how or why these laws are established the way that they are!

 

[hobbsyoyo]

But getting into life-ruining moral outrage

Orly?

your country certainly doesn't look like a shining beacon of liberty and truth. More like a shining beacon of repressive morality.

Care to walk that one back? I bet not because humility is a trait severly lacking on the internets.

Anywho, I find it odd that using the words 'child rape' in a case where it may legally apply is so harsh to the same people who will go on tears about 'homophobes' who are against SSM and the 'racists' that 'fill' the Republican party. (this isn't necessarily directed at you Oda) Especially since until VR, no one bothered to look up the statutes and use facts to state a case. Until then it was entirely conjecture, opinion and assumption.

This is the tavern, where bombastic statements of hyperbole are practically the law of the land. So let's not play the outrage card when you know you're as guilty of it as well.

Also, the use of the words child rape in the title and OP were as much about attracting attention and stirring discussion as anything else.

Boiling it down to a case of majority-based relativism does nothing to tell us how or why these laws are established the way that they are!

Hey man, what's moral relativism got to do with people's god-given right to sleep with the 16 year olds of their choosing even where that's against the law?

No sane person really cares much about what the '16 is OK as long as there's carpeting on the floor' crowd. Especially when the offender is not anywhere close in age to the person they allegedly molested (which, even in NY, is something of an exeption in the statutes). Then again, their opinions are great justification for calling Americans barbarians, so I guess there's that.

 

[Patroklos]

But 18 is magically OK?

There was a teacher in the high school where my ex-wife taught who was dating a 16-year-old with the explicit permission of her parents. It created quite a stir in the community. But since they did not have sexual relations, nothing was done about it. They met at church.

The key here is that there was no sexual relationship. Anyone anywhere can date an underage person if sex is not involved legally.

Assuming, of course, that teacher was not dating a student. But thats a whole differed taboo.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Anyone anywhere can date an underage person if sex is not involved legally.

Not if they want to keep their job as teacher in many, if not most jurisdictions.

 

[Patroklos]

Read my post again

 

[BvBPL]

This just in:

This just in:

This office represented a 23-year-old man who was the subject of many media reports regarding Kevin Clash. He wants it to be known that his sexual relationship with Mr. Clash was an adult consensual relationship. He will have no further comment on the matter

So, yeah, no actual child piddlin' going on.

Linkiepo.

 

[Skwink]

Who is going to be Elmo now?!

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Read my post again

You can get fired for having a non-sexual romantic relationship while teaching, even if it's not with a student.

This just in:



So, yeah, no actual child piddlin' going on.

Linkiepo.

Du-amn!

What a little punk. Hope Clash comes out of this with little lasting damage.

 

[Patroklos]

All that statement says is that it was an "adult relationship", not that he was not 16 at the time. The fact that the statement was not explicit as far as the age in question is confusing to me if the point was to end controversy.