[WS:] Which country is it?
As to the rest of your post - I am not commenting on the morality of having sex with adolescent girls, but if you are interested in my opinion on the subject - I think it is unethical, but it also culturally defined, and in some cultures it is ethical or non-objectionable.
I am commenting about what appears to be the law enforcement apparatus prosecuting someone for a violation of a sexual taboo against a Caucasian female. I am nearly 100% positive that if the female were not Caucasian, there would be no case in this case. In fact, there are many cases of girls under consent age engaged in sex acts and the reaction from the establishment seems to be limited to condemning their "promiscuity."
I also find it peculiar that Mr. Polanski was able to move freely for about 35 or so years and nobody gave a flying fuck about his sexual misconduct until recently. May it be related to the establishment being tired of the vilification of bankers and attempting to change the subject?
Wojtek
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Matthias Wasser <matthias.wasser at gmail.com>wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Doug: I don't get the cultural elite's reaction. So it's not under
> dispute
> > that the guy drugged and raped a 13-year-old girl, right? Call me a
> > hardass,
> > but that sort of thing deserves some serious time. Running off to Paris
> for
> > 35 years is hardly a substitute. Am I wrong?
> >
> > [WS:] I am nonplussed. Many girls sexually mature by the age of 12. It
> > is
> > not that uncommon in this country to have sex with 12-years olds, and
> > nobody, including law enforcement, makes any fuss about it. I personally
> > know of cases of girls under 14 on parole giving birth and nothing being
> > done about it. So basically what this case seems to be about is
> > prosecution for a violation of a sexual taboo against a white girl. If
> > that
> > happened, say, in Iran, I am pretty sure you would be quite upset about
> > it,
> > as you have in the past. So what makes a similar case in Amerika
> > different?
> >
> > Wojtek
>
>
> Are you saying that an adult having sex with a pubescent is no big deal?
> Being able to give birth is "sexual maturity" in one sense, but it doesn't
> imply anything like being a morally autonomous individual, much less a
> morally autonomous individual free of coercion. (Being eighteen and sober
> doesn't either, I suppose, but it's a decent legal proxy.) Maybe things are
> different in your country, but guess what? Your country is wrong.
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