| PlagueOfLocust said: 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... |
Laws against having sex with a minor exist for two reasons. Because at a young age a child can be manipulated in such a way that they will have 'consensual' sex even when they dont want it and because a child having sex causes huge amounts of emotional and mental harm to said child. The age of 16 (or whatever it is in your country) is only chosen because there has to be some barrier, its not because the child magically matures at that age.
There is no reason for laws against homosexuality as adult males both have the ability to reason and will not be caused the mental and emotional harm.
Also your a fool if you think stealing doesnt hurt somebody, it hurts the person from which it was stolen. Not in a physical way but in emotional and mental ways as well as potentially lowering their quality of life (depending on what was stolen).
Your last rant seems to be purely based on that you want the world to be run under a religious (I'm guessing Christian?) government. Look at the middle east to see how religious govts. turn out, it aint pretty.
