Re: Justice is served!

Brandon D Cartwright wrote:
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> On Mon, 19 May 2008 13:11:46 +0200 (CEST), Baal
> <Use-Author-Supplied-Address-Header@[127.1]> wrote:
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> >Pedo Pedant is quite right here--ages of consent are not based on any
> >physiological or psychological basis that I am aware of--it /is/ a social
> >convention, which varies over time and place.
>
> The chronological age may vary but any adult having sex with a child
> is committing a sex crime...
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Nope. It's just against the law, and you saying it as an argument
when it's the law we're arguing about is moronic.


> The  law is far more than a social convention..
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Nope. It may be the ultimate in social convention and codified whim
and opinion, but that *IS* all it is.


> >Until a few weeks ago, the age of consent in Canada was 14. This age was
> >prescribed in legislation in 1892--prior to that it was 12, the same as it
> >was in the rest of the British Empire.  Recent legislation has just gone
> >into effect, raising the age of consent to 16.
>
> For very good reasons..
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Which reasoning you have no command of.


> Someone breaking a social convention is liable to ridicule and social
> disapproval..
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Irrelevant. ONLY law is important in a secular society, the rest is
merely uninformed religious opinion not binding on anyone. Trying to
make religion into law this way is invariably headed for failure.
Steve
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