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Fundy signgle-mindedness? I don’t thinks so. This is not an issue of personal “morality” which doesn’t harm anybody. As soon as a person starts adding victims to his behavior he loses my support. A man in his 20’s who publicly has sex with a drunk 15 year old girl is a fucking scumbag- no exceptions
Yes, I do think so. Fundies make their decision based on the Bible, because they believe that it’s the word of God. You’re basing your decision based on the laws of the society you grew up in, you’re not taking into account the fact that other societies both presently and in the past have different definitions of what is correct. Hell, even different states in the US have different definitions as to what constitutes statutory rpe, and yet you’re still willing to appoint yourself supreme arbitor of what’s right and wrong.
You’ve labeled the girl a “victim” without ever meeting her. Do you know that she was traumatized by the event? Do you know if she’s ever had consentual sex with someone her own age prior to this?
When I was in my early 20s, I was bnging girls who were 16 and 17 (along with the occassional 30 year old), every one of those girls had more sexual partners than I did, and I treated them better than their partners who were their peers. I didn’t simply sleep with them, I took them places, listened to them talk about their hopes and dreams and treated them with the same kind of respect a person should treat anyone they love. Does that make me a bad guy, simply because of a law, which is more likely to be enforced against a man, who crosses an arbitrary barrier than a woman who does the same? Perhaps it’s the law that’s wrong.
I’m not advocating adults sleeping with young children, but that’s beside the point.