(May 26, 2011 at 2:20 am)fr0d0 Wrote: I've been on Rayaan's side for most of this. I kudos him for his guts and his level headed responses. My daughter is 8, and she's a million miles away from maturity. Where I grew up there were lots of Indian people and the children do mature a lot earlier. That said.. I can't see how it wouldn't be seriously emotionally damaging to have an adult sexual encounter at that age. Do we know this is the case? Do we know what actually happened?
And if we're saying that this societal morality is unacceptable, isn't that also saying a secular morality can fail sometimes?
So if someone wanted to have sex with your daughter, would you allow it since you can't see how a person could be emotionally damaged at that age?
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
