(January 29, 2016 at 5:25 pm)Jenny A Wrote: ...our definition of non-consenting has expanded to include those too young to consent, and those too much in the control of another to consent.The importance of consent is with one with which I agree. Yet why should sexual interactions between adults and children be treated any differently than interaction in other areas. For example, adults can compel children to eat things, take medicine, take music lessons, etc. without their consent because the adults believe it is good for the children. Now of course most people in today's Western culture know that adult-child sexual relationships are generally traumatic and psychologically crippling for children.
All I am saying is that evil people are very good and rationalizing very harmful things especially with respect to primal desires like greed and lust. But if perversity becomes part of the culture then people become blind to the harms it causes. It is conceivable that at some point pederasty could be the new "civil right". Afterall, some people say you cannot legislate morality and complain about other people pushing their morals onto them.
