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Very well. (But it really isn't within the bounds of the topic, which is more about homosexuality as it relates to Jack Thompson's case.)

At least we've established that anything that doesn't hurt anyone physically is right. Like stealing. How wonderful that mankind has come to that place, where, since we can't depend on a moral authority anymore, we're forced to lower morality to the level of what "doesn't hurt anybody." I'm sorry, but a practical moral code that philosophy does not make.

Who decides that the child is not aware? At what age? Is a 16 year old not aware? And children don't always do what they're told; they're not puppets - that's a poor argument. Let's say a kid's parents never had any sexual interaction with their 16 year old, and someone in their 20s or 30s offers them sex. They can refuse, or they can accept. Who decides if they "knew" what they were doing? Who decides if they are "emotionally prepared"? Aren't different kids potentially more or less prepared emotionally for something like that than others of the same age, even if that age is 20? All these explanations you're giving for the rules of our society are just pretences to conceal having some kind of moral code that, without which, would lead to societal chaos. NOTHING is wrong without a moral authority. And because we now depend on that moral code's continuing concealment within cold logic, we will eventually justify everything (as the concealment is gradually and inevitably undone), unless we re-enstate a moral authority instead of being so afraid of one that we have to hide it within laws of seeming significance that are in fact, on a philosophical level, empty.

Whew... I hope that last bit came out right.


Edit - Even better, the fact that you admit that sex is something one needs to be prepared for in order to do it "properly" suggests that there are proper and therefore *improper* ways to have sex. Hmm...


"Whenever you find a man who says he doesn't believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later."   -C.S. Lewis

"We all make choices... but in the end, our choices... make us."   -Andrew Ryan, Bioshock

Prediction: Wii passes 360 in US between July - September 2008. (Wii supply will be the issue to watch, and barring any freak incidents between now and then as well.) - 6/5/08; Wow, came true even earlier. Wii is a monster.