04-15-2006, 07:00 PM
Ah. Sex, death, and punishment. Sounds like a Tolstoy book no?
Since this is sliding in to what society accepts as right or wrong and how to punish those that do wrong...
Why is it that a teen having sex with another teen or an older person is somehow bad or wrong... I mean, that will get you locked up right?
Yet, you can marry a 12 to 13 year old girl (Or for that matter a boy) and do whatever you please. Sure, people frown on it, (well, some people) but it is somehow acceptable to do this. It makes it right somehow. It makes it perfectly legal for a grown adult of any age to have sexual relations with an underaged child.
There is quite a bit of that round here. You don't see it in the city much. But you go in to the little backwoods settlements and rural communities that are little more than a stoplight and a gas station, and trust me, you'll see it. A lot of folks passing through just think it's just a little girl out with her father, but nooo.
I've heard this is also true of a lot of areas, including Utah and the polygamist crowds.
Some of the snake handlers round these parts believe that it is sinful for a girl to keep having her period and not be married, that if she can bleed, she can breed, and not getting married when it happens is some terrible sin against God.
See, there just aint enough consistancy. People make to many exceptions to the rule, allow some folk to get away with it, and prosecute others, and there is this whole slippery slope thing going on where everybody somehow thinks they can get away with it. People can see other people getting away with it and they probably start to thinking that they can get away with it to. I mean, it has to cross through some perverts mind that since it is ok for so and so to have sex with his 13 year old wife, that is somehow perfectly ok for them to have sex with their 13 year old "girlfriend'. Or younger. You get the idea I hope. I saw this touched briefly on earlier in the thread, about how it is the government's job to protect the kids because some times parents don't. And I agree. Parents shouldn't let their daughters or sons getting married or having sex at those young ages, and as much as it bothers me to say this, excuses be damned, religious or otherwise, somebody needs to put their foot down and enforce these legal restrictions with NO exceptions. When some people get special exceptions, suddenly everybody believes they are entitled to get them.
Since this is sliding in to what society accepts as right or wrong and how to punish those that do wrong...
Why is it that a teen having sex with another teen or an older person is somehow bad or wrong... I mean, that will get you locked up right?
Yet, you can marry a 12 to 13 year old girl (Or for that matter a boy) and do whatever you please. Sure, people frown on it, (well, some people) but it is somehow acceptable to do this. It makes it right somehow. It makes it perfectly legal for a grown adult of any age to have sexual relations with an underaged child.
There is quite a bit of that round here. You don't see it in the city much. But you go in to the little backwoods settlements and rural communities that are little more than a stoplight and a gas station, and trust me, you'll see it. A lot of folks passing through just think it's just a little girl out with her father, but nooo.
I've heard this is also true of a lot of areas, including Utah and the polygamist crowds.
Some of the snake handlers round these parts believe that it is sinful for a girl to keep having her period and not be married, that if she can bleed, she can breed, and not getting married when it happens is some terrible sin against God.
See, there just aint enough consistancy. People make to many exceptions to the rule, allow some folk to get away with it, and prosecute others, and there is this whole slippery slope thing going on where everybody somehow thinks they can get away with it. People can see other people getting away with it and they probably start to thinking that they can get away with it to. I mean, it has to cross through some perverts mind that since it is ok for so and so to have sex with his 13 year old wife, that is somehow perfectly ok for them to have sex with their 13 year old "girlfriend'. Or younger. You get the idea I hope. I saw this touched briefly on earlier in the thread, about how it is the government's job to protect the kids because some times parents don't. And I agree. Parents shouldn't let their daughters or sons getting married or having sex at those young ages, and as much as it bothers me to say this, excuses be damned, religious or otherwise, somebody needs to put their foot down and enforce these legal restrictions with NO exceptions. When some people get special exceptions, suddenly everybody believes they are entitled to get them.
All alone, or in twos,
The ones who really love you
Walk up and down outside the wall.
Some hand in hand
And some gathered together in bands.
The bleeding hearts and artists
Make their stand.
And when they've given you their all
Some stagger and fall, after all it's not easy
Banging your heart against some mad buggers wall.
"Isn't this where...."
The ones who really love you
Walk up and down outside the wall.
Some hand in hand
And some gathered together in bands.
The bleeding hearts and artists
Make their stand.
And when they've given you their all
Some stagger and fall, after all it's not easy
Banging your heart against some mad buggers wall.
"Isn't this where...."