Lethal Injection Under Fire Again

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It's the government's job. 
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You know that saying, "The devil is in the details"? It applies here. That's why its a gordian knot, a can of worms, and a whole bunch of litigation, red tape, and hullabaloo. There are a lot of angles to approach. I can only show a few.

Right now, every state in the US has its own policy. Go take a look at www.ageofconsent.com to see just some of the craziness involved.

Then there's the matter of enforcement. Who gets prosecuted, who doesn't. Does the teenager get jailed for sleeping with another teenager? What about the parents of that kid that give their kids condoms, or give their kid a bus ticket to canada to see their boyfriend/girlfriend.

Granted, a 21 yr old should know better to sleep with a 17 year old in the state of California, but under current laws the 21 yr old could get into deep cowpie. I for one, was capable of a lot of poor judgement up through the first 21st years of my life. Current laws will nitpick and punish.

However, there are substrings to every consent law. Some allow for minor couples to sleep with each other legally, or with reduced sentence. if they're within 3 years of each other. Some change the rules for homosexual relations, on both the punishing and permissive ends.

If the AoC was put to 12, I have no doubt there'd be a lot of strings to this, as every state is obsessed with the sexual behaviour of minors. If it were 12, it'd only apply for people within 5 years of them. Or some oddity. For most states, the current age AoCis 16, and with a lot of conditionals, but let's not be in denial about kids that sleep around from age 12-15. They do it.

Go fishing with this can of worms, and you'll discover a lot of stink. Like Occhi, I have no answers, but at least I can show you it is big, very big, not h2g2 Universe big, but full of nightcrawlers.

Edit to add:

Sex, death, and punishment. Sounds like a Tolstoy book no?

Hey, what's sex without death? Who wants to live forever? Surely not the black widow spider's men, or the preying mantis's, or any male ant and bee. Nor Isis and her dead husband Osiris, the pairing of both living god and dead god (literally, as much as a myth can be literal) spawned Horus. Life, death, sex, life!