Well explain to me how the 13 year old looks 13... because to me she looks like this bitch that works at the bodega who I know is in her 2nd year in university
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You don't seem to get it.
I can very very easily look at a situation, take the criminal out of it AND THEN just talk about the law in general, and society.
I do this a lot because personal feelings towards a particular person shouldn't matter, and colours things
yet that is often taken by people here as me defending the criminal, even when i go out of my way to focus more on the law and mindset of people.
If a man breaks into a home shoots a gun then runs out and away and is fleeing and someone shoots them in the back.
I will spend my time talking about castle doctrine, the law, the mindsets of people, differing laws in different states or countries. The individual criminal really doesn't matter here
I like that Themius is arguing that fucking Tekashi 6ix9ine, this guy:
has the moral turpitude to not sleep with an underage girl and must have just been confused because he's just a young man who didn't know any better.
Maybe they should have also forgiven his gang-related activities. After all, they may have been his age cohorts.
And also, it's well known gang members *never* have sex with underage girls.
Well then. I guess we should get rid of Stat Rape laws altogether.
If you, The king of critical thought, can't tell the difference between a 13 year old and an 18 year old...then we can't reasonably assume that anyone else can either.
Hear that everyone? Open Season on teenagers. If you get caught just tell the police that "She didn't look like a minor" and Themius will represent you in court.
This is what I mean by taking the criminal out of it. You are showing him to say look he looks like a bad hombre so? Does the law change because a person looks bad?
He himself was 18, if he wasn't asking ages... why do you think it is beyond reasonable that she could have looked as though she were older than she was?
There aren't special laws for gangs and cohort ages so this is just a foolish statement we have laws about sex though.
Sooo, I am guessing since you are taking this "money is money no matter where or whom it comes from" stance, that you would be perfectly OK with a Jewish charity aimed to help battle Antisemitism accepting a donation from a known Neo-Nazi? Cause, hey, MONEY IS MONEY!
Yeah, that's right, I invoked Godwin's law.
Males seem to start puberty later.
Comparing males to females you also should note at least when it comes to looks males often enough don't develop proper beards till later years generally, and chesthair if they are to have it, may not fully develop until 20s-30s.
There are other markers for women but they can be more minute... like breast size doesn't mature fully until about 16, but one may just simply think a woman has small breast, it isn't exactly a proper marker of age.
You are aware that there are literally laws on this already right?
For instance in new york an 11 year old can give partial consent to a 17 year old.
That is a 6 year gap, and much larger mental gap than a 13 year old and an 18.
The former is less criminal than the latter, which to me does not make sense. An 11 year old is clear clear clear as day paedophilia, yet the law says they can give partial consent to a 17 year old. It's dumb.
Yet a 13 year old can't give partial consent to an 18 year old even though they are closer in age and mental capacity and the 13 year old will already be much further along in development.
Part of my issue comes from the laws that exist that seem nonense as it treats an 11 year old as able to give more consent to a 17 year old, than a 13 to an 18. It doesn't make sense.
I hate talking about this stuff...
You can't convict someone off "you must have known they were underaged because of the way they looked" unless you can prove that person was actually looking for someone who is underaged.
The rapper did the crime, got in trouble for it as he should. The courts also reduced his penalties but a lot because: "you must have known she was x years old" doesn't hold up in court, there were strong indicators that he would have never done what he did if he knew her age.
He is only a pedophile in the loosest of interpretations. An interpretation doesn't do society any favors when actually discussing pedophiles and their victims. What he did, at that time, was make a stupid negligent mistake in part to him being a dumb 19-year-old. No 19 year old, especially when egged on by people older than him, goes "well I better check ID first". A few months prior and he would have tagged as someone who was also exploited.
Nothing before or after that incident suggests he is an actual pedophile. He should not be given a pass for that charge but no should he should be held in the same arena as other sex offenders. Especially when he's been caught up in a lot more stuff that he no excuses for being caught up in.
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We have Romeo and Juliet laws. In this case, we are talking a few months making the difference of how criminal this is.
I have an issue with an 11 year old being able to give more consent than a 13 year old... it doesn't make sense. The 11 year old is very clear paedophilia and is more likely to be at risk of manipulation and abuse.
Than a 13 year old and 18 year old who are both closer mentally and physically.
None of what I am saying is defending the actual act so you making this comment seems foolish to me, since my issue is how criminal it should be.
There is a crime, but should it be treated under the Romeo and Juliet type of laws, or the general laws that's the question I am proposing... honestly I don't get how you don't get this.
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I didn't derail shit, I literally just said i'd be wary of treating him the same as some Fucking 35 year old, and that we shouldn't' shun people trying to atone.
then I got attacked. Are you going to attack pacox too? Because we essentially said the same fucking shit.
I literally said he said he didn't know her age, and he was a dumb kid who didn't check id, and he was 18, and then i go on to say treating what he did as equal to any other child sex abuser is harmful to people who have been abused and not because they looked older and could pass while they went out to have sex but because they were groomed and abused.
A lot of why i go into this and why i want to compartmentalize so much is because lumping this in diminishes who serious a crime child sex abuse is
I then went into the fucking stupidity of the law that treats an 11 year old as able to give partial consent to 17 year old, and note because of that law trying to treat this... between a 13 and 18, gravely, doesn't make sense.
then went on to say which the course agreed
So I'm being attacked, for agreeing with the fucking court, and agreeing with pacox
you and several others simply just like to fuck with me and everything I say. Someone else can say it, and they'll be fine. I've literally seen it happen multiple times. So come the fuck off it.
I even remember a thread of people in the fun stuff forum, with the purpose to solely attack me by purposefully misconstruing my arguments.
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