From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lcrocker@mercury.colossus.net)
Date: Fri Sep 17 1999 - 09:48:36 MDT
> From: Lee Daniel Crocker <lcrocker@mercury.colossus.net>
> >Frankly, though, that's one double standard I fully support, and
> >that fits well with the realities. Laws that treat unequal things
> >equally are bad laws. Sex between an older woman and young boy
> >is a qualitatively different act than the same act between
> >parties of the same age and opposite gender. The consequences
> >to the victim--both physical ones like pregnancy and disease
> >and emotional ones--are different in degree and character, and
> >/should/ be treated differently.
>
> Sorry, but that makes you a sexist.
So what's your point? I don't care about your labels, I care
about what's /right/, so if you have some argument that I'm
mistaken, I'd like to hear it. Blind, dogmatic egalitarianism
is just as stupid as blind dogmatic sexism; I see no reason to
value one over the other.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lcrocker.html> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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