Quote: (12-13-2017 01:52 AM)Suits Wrote:
Quote: (12-13-2017 01:38 AM)eljeffster Wrote:
Roy Moore, accused of "inappropriate sexual or social conduct" What the hell is "social conduct" supposed to mean. When they raise the age of consent to 21 years old, everyone who has dated a fun 19 yo chick will be the new pedophile pervert Faggots like OP looking to judge based on today's gynocentric world to a different time when the age of consent was different.
One of the allegations involved a woman who claimed she would have been 13 at the time.
I don't know about you, but if I would not be impressed by any group or society that condoned men in their 20's or older pursuing girls that young. Given that it's almost certainly ethically preferable that modern societies draw a legal line somewhere (while I can give a pass to pre-modern societies where sex with 13 year old was considered normal) I think good enough arguments could be made that in modern times, 16 years old is a very reasonable line to draw.
As far as the allegations themselves, I'm hesitant to believe anything with such incredibly convenient timing, but I also wouldn't assume that they aren't true based on that alone.
The truth is that if we judged everyone by the worst skeletons in their closet, most people would look pretty bad.
The take-away here is not that we should forgive people who have had bad judgment in the past and give them authority that they may abuse, but that rather we need to begin to process of recentering society around smaller communities with enough self-sufficiency to prosper despite events on a global scale while still having enough connectivity to the world to contribute to a rising tide that lifts all ships to higher heights of human achievement.
If our hope is in being able to elect infallible politicians, we are already doomed.
Maybe he wanted to marry her!
I've been laughing at this witch-hunt on Moore, recalling what I learned after scratching the surface of a discussion in another thread.
Don't these fuckers doing the screaming in Alabama know that their state actually licences pedophilia marriage.
How can your laws be so fucked up between legal consent and legal marriage age? It beats me.
These laws are still present (& used) in many states. Incredibly.
Never, have I heard a word of protest over these. Are people aware of the actual laws?
Fucked up culture indeed. Centuries old colonial common law, designed pre-magna carta, still frequently used in 21st century US of A.
Over 200,000, what are considered minors, have been married off in the US between 2000 and 2016.
Never hear a peep about it.
Moore's state Alabama itself still marries off 13 yr olds. However. Across the state line in Tennessee......WTF??
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The youngest children to marry were three 10-year-old girls in Tennessee in 2001, who were married to men ages 24, 25 and 31, according to state data. The youngest groom was an 11-year-old boy, also in Tennessee, who married a 27-year-old woman in 2006.
Children as young as 12 were granted marriage licenses in Alaska, Louisiana, South Carolina and Tennessee.
Thirteen-year-olds were given the green light to marry in Alabama, Florida, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Washington.
http://apps.frontline.org/child-marriage...e-numbers/
Trying to remember my 11yr old self.