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Originally posted by Partygirl
Seems like every day brings a new awful story of new depths of human depravity. You don't even have to read this gruesome story to get an understanding of what happened, but the thing I wonder is: How can the court system let this go unpunished?
Its a sick world and getting sicker. I don't know what to say I hate this story and I feel like hitting something but I guess I'll just not do that right now.
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Originally posted by boondock-saint
Everything else is
man made.
Originally posted by OptimusSubprime
I'm 34 now, so it's OK for me to sexually fantasize about a 13 year old girl because I was 13 years old once?
Is that seriously your argument??
Prisons around this country are full of people just like you.
I do agree with the courts decision, because the pictures were not child porn, but the Dad should get a bullet in the head for even doing something like this
... because I would hate to see what he does next.
For the record... I have no problem standing here all "high and mighty" with my "holier than thou" attitude, because I have never sexually fantasized about a child.
Evan Emory was arrested after creating a YouTube remix video that showed him, fictitiously, singing an inappropriate song to elementary schoolchildren. As you might expect from West Michigan, a part of the country that boasts the street with the most churches on it and the most pews, prosecutors were anxious to answer the angered battle cry of parents everywhere and charged Emory with "manufacturing child sexual abusive material." Obviously, no children were harmed in the filming of this video, but prosecutors argue that the video gives the appearance of children being abused.
Originally posted by SaturnFX
Originally posted by OptimusSubprime
I'm 34 now, so it's OK for me to sexually fantasize about a 13 year old girl because I was 13 years old once?
In a word, yes.
Originally posted by Illusionsaregrander
Originally posted by Forevever
I take responsibility for all the choices I made as a teenager. Whatever parts of my brain hadn't completed forming, had no bearing on the choices I made. I do not deny or regret them.
You can take responsibility all you want, the second half of this statement is absolutely FALSE. And not just because some people say so. Because of good solid science.
How old are you now? You dont write like someone much out of adolescence now.
Originally posted by SaturnFX
incidently, before you start to question...hell yeah I fantasized about underage girls...
Originally posted by g146541
The BIG thing here is, a persons thoughts no matter how dark should not be illegal.
Originally posted by g146541
reply to post by incrediblelousminds
When you boil this whole topic down it falls into the realm of thought crime.
The only real victim here is a picture.
From the proof so far available to us.
Originally posted by boondock-saint
Originally posted by The_Phantom
Yeah, and in his mind he was having sex with his daughter.
IMO you would be correct
but thinking it and doing it
are 2 different things by
man made law.
By God's law they are the same.
The only question I have is, do your children sexually excite you? Because the disgust people are feeling for this guy is primarily that he wants to have sex with his underage daughter, not just some underage girl.
Originally posted by Forevever
Since it is widely hypothesized (no actual proof that I can find) that the final development is the Executive Function - and its widely believed that impairs a persons ability to understand consequences - and CAN LAST until the age of 25 (some have it as high as 27)..... man this opens a can of worms, everyone here under 27 is wrong.... (where's my eyeroll)
Originally posted by Forevever
And if it does last till 25....Why are people not protected to the age of 25?
Originally posted by Forevever
Since no scientific minds have answered these questions, I don't really expect you to.
Originally posted by Forevever
Additionally, children as young as 10 years old have been tried as an adult, under the belief that they understood not only what they were doing was wrong, but that they understood consequences.
Originally posted by Forevever
This leads me to believe that the development can end at any age.
Originally posted by Forevever
Stop writing off teenagers as idiots.
Originally posted by Forevever
And to the person who asked my age, I'm 37
Originally posted by Illusionsaregrander
Originally posted by SaturnFX
incidently, before you start to question...hell yeah I fantasized about underage girls...
You think you really needed to say that explicitly? Lol. Its very clear from your argument that you are defending him, because you think its okay for you.
The only question I have is, do your children sexually excite you? Because the disgust people are feeling for this guy is primarily that he wants to have sex with his underage daughter, not just some underage girl.
Its kind of a red herring to drag your defense of this guy off into generic "underage girl" land and so far from "incestuous pedophile" land where it belongs.