Personally, I find 13 to be too young in my opinion, but I have been raised with modern western values, which conditions us this way. Two to three hundred years ago (if even that) a man in his 30s sleeping with a teen under 16 wouldn't even cause people to bat an eye, unless they weren't married.
I mean, I'm not saying black people are inferior, but there's a correlation between race and IQ, and two to three hundred years ago a man having sex with his slave against her will would be seen as making use of his property.
Not that that's right. But I've been raised with western values, so who's to say what's really right?
2) The only reason (IMO) children in our era lack in maturity (as defined by adults, btw) is the way we tend to coddle them, and hide the realities of the world from them, especially when it comes to procreation. The "victim" of Polanski's crime has admitted it was consensual, but still the charge is considered rape (statutory).
You can't give consent when you're drunk. Which she was. Because he gave her alcohol. So not only was it statutory rape, which is a perfectly decent reason to throw the bastard in jail, but it was flat-out non-consensual rape as well.
And no, I am NOT IN ANY WAY condoning Mr. Polanski's actions, nor am I excusing them.
Which is why you just wrote that post...
"We feel safe when we read what we recognise, what does not challenge our way of thinking.... a steady acceptance of pre-arranged patterns leads to the inability to question what we are told."
~Camilla
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Roman Polanski arrested in Switzerland on U.S. Arrest Warrant
- 27/09/2009 12:47:16 PM
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Very good
- 27/09/2009 04:37:40 PM
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That point sort of struck me too...
- 27/09/2009 04:50:54 PM
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This is pointless
- 27/09/2009 05:30:01 PM
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Doesn't work that way
- 27/09/2009 09:17:27 PM
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I must have missed the part of him already being convicted. My bad. *NM*
- 27/09/2009 09:23:01 PM
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Was I the only one who was shocked when he got a standing ovation at the Oscars awhile back?
- 28/09/2009 12:59:23 AM
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He gets a somewhat skewed sympathy vote from a lot of people because of the murder of his wife
- 28/09/2009 01:58:16 AM
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It's been 30 years. He does not seem to have done it again
- 28/09/2009 01:48:26 PM
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They don't have to try him he plead guility
- 28/09/2009 02:43:12 PM
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Meh. It's been 30 years.
- 28/09/2009 04:03:51 PM
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Did she say she forgave him?
- 29/09/2009 01:15:46 AM
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Don't you think laws have to stand whether the perp is forgiven by the victim or not?
- 29/09/2009 02:58:18 AM
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How long do you have to stay away before you're absolved of murder?
- 29/09/2009 02:56:58 AM
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Murder and sex with a minor are not the same thing.
- 29/09/2009 02:54:10 PM
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They are, in my opinion, the two worst crimes a human being can commit.
- 01/10/2009 03:28:45 AM
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I'm not saying that sex with 13 year olds is right or anything, but...
- 28/09/2009 10:49:29 PM
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It used to be legal to have children under 9 working in the pits for 16 hours a day, but...
- 29/09/2009 01:20:40 AM
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First off, what the hell?
- 29/09/2009 06:33:37 AM
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I was confused by that, too. It's like, I'm not saying, I'm just saying.
- 29/09/2009 08:09:14 AM
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can't consent when drunk?
- 01/10/2009 09:24:39 PM
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