09-14-2008, 07:03 PM
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and I think generally they are ridiculous when applied to people who committed statutory rape twenty years ago.
| To me that's the key, and another reason I could wish for more Biblically based law in our society. When a 19 year old has sex with his 16 year old girlfriend, it's wrong, and under Biblical law there's either a fine or a marriage (as long as she isn't engaged to someone else), and the case is done with. But in a case of what we've historically called rape, the man is put to death, as there really isn't any cure for that sort of behavior.
Lumping both kinds together make things impossibly awkward. | Tim,
We have disagreed on much recently, but I agree with you here. In many cases there is no distinction made, and all of the above are simply labeled as "sex offenders" whether it's a case of statutory rape as in your example or child rape.
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