Question on freedom to voice support for criminal actions?

[Violet]

The fact that the law is against it, laws are not created through a irrational process, they are created by taking facts into consideration.
Such as the legal age at which one reaches adulthood, the pedagogic studies which are dedicated to these specific subjects and etc.

Really? If some laws aren't created through irrational processes then...

http://www.dumblaws.com/law/10

(edit @ the below: The president himself must swear upon the Bible Many state laws contradict this federal one. So much for rational process)

http://www.dumblaws.com/law/1352

As for specifically the 'legal age of adulthood'... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_majority#Age_14

*There is a country in this world where the legal 'age of adulthood' is as low as 14... and there are countries in this world where the legal 'age of adulthood' is as high as 21*

Based on a seven-year difference in opinion... I'm going to call any concern for a 14-year old being considered 'adult enough' to make the vast and wide majority of their own decisions: bullshit.

Show me your studies, define adulthood, and I will proceed to show you why the are philosophically worthless in estimation of mid-late teenagers as potentially adults, so long as an utterly retarded arbitrary age-line is not invoked as the definition of 'adulthood' (which would immediately cease to really mean anything as a result).

And that young woman will simply have to wait until she is 18, or the man has to, since he would be the purpertrator in the crime.

Why *should* they have to wait? I've yet to see a good answer for this... and it is probably equally common that the youngster is male in these cases (cougars, yknow).

And what crime is happening, exactly?

[Rayaan]

@ Germans:

Cultural, Historical, and Subcultural Contexts of Adolescence: Implications for Health and Development

Although clearly influenced by biological and psychological growth, adolescent development is also molded by the social and cultural context in which it occurs. As the transition from childhood to adulthood, adolescence is closely tied to the structure of adult society, and the expectations for youth during this period reflect, in important ways, the skills and qualities deemed important for success in adult roles (Benedict, 1937; Havighurst, 194811972). Furthermore, prevailing demographic, economic, and political conditions determine the adult occupational and social roles to which young people can aspire, as well as the access to and competition for those roles (Elder, 1975). The integral connection between adolescence and the societal context means that, despite universals such as puberty and cognitive development, adolescents' experiences will vary across cultures and over history. The settings in which young people develop, the skills they are expected to acquire, and the ways in which their progress toward adulthood is marked and celebrated depend on the cultural and historical contexts.

http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewco...sychfacpub

[Something completely different]

Social and cultural context is a bad excuse.

I wouldnt aprove of letting Jivaro Indians of hunting heads or the inhabitants of northern India burn widows.

Moral is is subjective and determined through reason and thought.

Not through culture.

[Dee Dee Ramone]

I don't understand it.

By agreeing to disagree with an *identical argument* to your own...

I really don't have to fill that in, it speaks for itself

Maybe branding everybody wasn't very clever. I admit there can be exceptions, but for me personally it is a disgusting idea. I know one couple that proves me wrong stereotyping, but I've also seen people taking advantage of very young girls.

It's just that the thought of it gives me the same creeps as thinking of having sex with my mother.

[Violet]

Maybe branding everybody wasn't very clever. I admit there can be exceptions, but for me personally it is a disgusting idea. I know one couple that proves me wrong stereotyping, but I've also seen people taking advantage of very young girls.

I've seen young women take advantage of rich older men plenty often. Honestly... what changes between a 14 year old using an older person to get rich and an 18 year old doing the same?

Genuinely... I'm not seeing any difference here. I think a lot of things are disgusting, but I tolerate them if it isn't explicitly clear that someone is being greatly harmed by whatever their behavior is

It's just that the thought of it gives me the same creeps as thinking of having sex with my mother.

That Biblical creation account must make you awfully squeamish, then.

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Moral is is subjective and determined through reason and thought.

Not through culture.

It's moral in their culture, so you don't like it... so what?