Re: What is there to protect?

On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 02:40:27AM -0300, Punk-Stasi 2.0 wrote:

On Mon, 23 Dec 2019 16:29:29 +1100 Zenaan Harkness wrote:

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Oh yes, yes there is - but perhaps not for the reasons you might think: pedophilia is an easy entrapment of politicians, in order to wield the power of blackmail over them

politicians are not being blackmailed - stop making bullshit up.

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- you got naughty with a 14 or 15 year old?

for the record so called 'age of consent' in places like germany is 14. Not to mention that persons aged 14 are not 'children' anyway.

Yes, treating biological adults as though they are children is the infant-ization, belittling, and disempowering of young adults and ultimately adults, as well as criminalizing rather than celebrating wholesome relationships. A good comparison is Italy vs Australia, where in Italy is common for older children and younger teenagers to be allowed a small glass of wine at dinner when the parents are drinking wine at dinner. As a result of this, binge drinking in much of Europe is basically non existent. In contrast, in Australia, under the moral virtue signalling banner of "refusing to normalize alcholoholism", we have laws on the books, and a MSM enforced culture of stricture around "children and alcohol" (with children of course being defined as anyone under the age where drinking alcohol publicly is not criminalized, in Australia usually 18, and in America often 21). So parents who might do as the Europeans do and allow their young offspring a little alcohol on occasion, are vilified as irresponsible parents who ought be prosecuted. And in Australia, as a result of the above, binge drinking in young adults is some of the worst in the world. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-11-15/schoolies-statistics-alarming-rates-o... A similar situation is the case with the fear, loathing and almost universal (in the (((MSM))) dominated West at least) condemnation of age differential sexual relationships. Our "public conversation" is messed up, and I say it is messed up for very specific reasons, intentions and purposes, which you appear to continue to rail vehemently against. One reason such railing and raging is counterproductive, is that as more people become aware of the underlying causes, intentions and purposes for the "crappy public conversation" that we have around these issues, the better the chance of shifting that conversation and ultimately collectively rectifying some of these problems. Yes, of course, there are more reasons, more causes - such as the puritanical history which some of us share - but one cause does not necessarily detract from another cause, and in fact they may be complementary.