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Satyn wrote:pAnd I really feel strongy that kids have to be protected from themselves.
Exactly. (oh, and I ofc agree with the rest in the text too)
It's hard as an adult to understand whats right and wrong - even more hard for a kid.

Edit: Also, kids have a tendency to belive in most things older people (not parents ofc :P lol) tell them...so they are way to easy to trick into doing illigal or wrong things. I guess thats why many paedophiles target them.

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Satyn wrote:i'm a 100% with ankh on this. They should have no rights, i'm ashamed to even breath the same air as they do. They should be hung on a cross and have their balls removed VERY SLOW and then let them bleed to death. I have no sympaty whatsoever for them. They shouldnt have any rights.
This is also a very disturbing line to take. Ankh had it right with incarceration and treatment. Facts are that the majority of abusers were themselves abused as children, they are themselves seriously mentally disturbed and damaged.

You can also think of morally ambigous situations - for example where an adult who has a low mental age has been found in a situation that were it an adult of normal mental age would be considered an abusive situation.

What i'm trying to do is hopefully consider that such treatment is not an appropriate way of dealing with such people.
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Cromcruaich wrote:Facts are that the majority of abusers were themselves abused as children, they are themselves seriously mentally disturbed and damaged.
Reducing the age might make these things happen even more frequently. Sure, incest will still be illigal - but it might make the parents belive what they are doing is even more ok than before.

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Cromcruaich wrote:This is also a very disturbing line to take. Ankh had it right with incarceration and treatment. Facts are that the majority of abusers were themselves abused as children, they are themselves seriously mentally disturbed and damaged.

You can also think of morally ambigous situations - for example where an adult who has a low mental age has been found in a situation that were it an adult of normal mental age would be considered an abusive situation.

What i'm trying to do is hopefully consider that such treatment is not an appropriate way of dealing with such people.
appropriate maybe not but they clearly dont think about baby's and kids so you tell me why i should have or feel any sympaty for them? Just cos they been abused themselves? Sorry, but there are a lot of ppl that got raped and abused and who dont turn out like those perverts.
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<ankh> wrote:Reducing the age might make these things happen even more frequently. Sure, incest will still be illigal - but it might make the parents belive what they are doing is even more ok than before.

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Point I was trying to make was with regards to punishment suggessted by Sat.

I do not in anyway support the platform that these people are standing on, I find it completely astonishing.
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Cromcruaich wrote:Point I was trying to make was with regards to punishment suggessted by Sat.

I do not in anyway support the platform that these people are standing on, I find it completely astonishing.
Yeah I know, but I thought I'd say that anyway. (thats why I just copy/past that part)

Edit: What I mean is that if you reduce the age you might get more inzest cases which might lead to even more paedophiles...or something like that anyway :) (but this is ofc speculations and nothing else)

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Satyn wrote:appropriate maybe not but they clearly dont think about baby's and kids so you tell me why i should have or feel any sympaty for them? Just cos they been abused themselves? Sorry, but there are a lot of ppl that got raped and abused and who dont turn out like those perverts.
Absolutely. Sympathy was not something I mentioned at all.

The argument that there are people who have been abused that dont themselves go on to abused is not really relevant.

What is relevant is that people who have been abused go on to be abusers who would not otherwise have been so.

Do they need to be punished - yes (thats how people learn right and wrong), do our children need to be protected from them - absolutely. Should they be put to death and tortured - categorically no.

Also what are your thoughts on the other situation I postulated?
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Well, a true democracy by definition has to accommodate listening to the views of everyone, even if those ideas are abhorent to the majority and won't get voted in because the majority won't allow it.

All fine and good in principle. But the reality is somewhat different.

The difference comes when extreme views / practices are likely to cause actual harm, hurt or suffering to another person rather than just causing offence (causing offence is subjective, causing suffering isn't).

One persons freedom of expression is another persons misery.

Which is why it is not fine to give freedom of expression to anyone who would advocate actions which would violate someone elses basic human rights (and the right for a child to not be molested by an adult is a fundamental human right).

I believe in free speech and democracy, but when someone crosses the boundary line and violates someone elses human rights, their rights to democratic free speech can go to hell as far as I'm concerned.

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Cernos wrote:Well, a true democracy by definition has to accommodate listening to the views of everyone, even if those ideas are abhorent to the majority and won't get voted in because the majority won't allow it.

All fine and good in principle. But the reality is somewhat different.

The difference comes when extreme views / practices are likely to cause actual harm, hurt or suffering to another person rather than just causing offence (causing offence is subjective, causing suffering isn't).

One persons freedom of expression is another persons misery.

Which is why it is not fine to give freedom of expression to anyone who would advocate actions which would violate someone elses basic human rights (and the right for a child to not be molested by an adult is a fundamental human right).

I believe in free speech and democracy, but when someone crosses the boundary line and violates someone elses human rights, their rights to democratic free speech can go to hell as far as I'm concerned.
Extremely well put. I was struggling to find a truly supportable argument why it was absolutely wrong. Youve got to the crux of it there.
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Cromcruaich wrote:
Also what are your thoughts on the other situation I postulated?
Could you say it again cos i didnt really understand what you're trying to say, and i'll be happy to give you my opinion.
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