highwaystar101 said:
I'm sorry, but this is the single most disgusting thing I have read in this thread. You are comparing two consenting adults in a loving relationship to the often violent sexual abuse of exploited children? No, you are comparing two completely different things. Most homosexual couples, like most heterosexual couples, are in a relationship based around a love they feel for each other. In most cases they do not wish to cause any harm to their partner, they can have all the love and respect that any heterosexual couple would have. Child pornography on the other hand is a sexual desire which only breeds violence and abuse which ruins the lives of the exploited children. It is almost always (as in 99% of cases) like this. If homosexuality came with the abuse, exploitation and suffering that child abuse came with, then it would be banned in a second and everyone would be against it. But it doesn't. Fair enough a moral line is hard to draw, morals are a relative thing, but you have chosen two things that are far removed form each other. |
Some moral lines are not hard to draw and aren't based on arbitrary relative things.
If a fully grown male for example has sex with a female child then it causes several problems that can objectively be measures and several that whilst not able to be objectively measured are nevertheless still possibly very damaging.
Firstly theres the sheer difference in physical size. If a female child isn't fully developed then she could and probably will suffer significant damage to her sexual organs.
Secondly theres the abuse of power between an adult and a child which could lead to psychological damage.
Thirdly theres the potential psychological damage caused by the act itself.
Fourthly theres the risk of the child catching a sexually transmitted infection. Which could limit her sexual life when shes and adult and also make her sick in general.
Fithly, if the child was born as a lesbian for example, then the very act of being forced to have sex with an adult of the opposide sex is damaging. This also applies to boys that are rapes by adult males and any other combination you like.
Not to mention the ethics (or lack there of) of a sex industry involving children.
Many moral decisions are relative, but I don't think this is one of them. Pedaphilia is wrong in many many ways. Homosexuality of course if between consenting adults can't even be compared as you say.