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Forum: General
Thread (Discussion): Teen guilty in daycare rape
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Message 120267 (In Reply to Message 120262)
Posted by steve
on Oct 21, 2003 04:55 PM | Also by steve
| Gender: Male,
Age Bracket: 30 - 39,
State: Virginia,
Country: United States |
> I just don't see how we as a society can tell that 15 year-old that he can't make
> a mature informed decision about sex because of his age, then turn around
> and say he knew exactly what he was doing and will be held responsible
> when he does commit an act.
I disagree. If a person is not old enough to take advantage of rights that the government (or society) grants to someone older, that doesn't mean they don't understand that something's wrong and that there are consequences.
If you consider age-based laws for activities such as driving, sex, alcohol consumption and voting I'm sure most people have known people below the minimum age who could have responsibly partaken in the activities and people above the minimum age who couldn't. By and large age-based laws are enacted because it's difficult to impossible to realistically implement restrictions based on other criteria. It would be nice if there were other criteria that would be better, but I don't think there are.
And I don't want to remove culpability across the board for those under the minimum age. What effect would that have?
Please elaborate on how you'd tackle this issue.
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Message 120262
children versus minors
Posted by orolan
on Oct 21, 2003 04:27 PM | Also by orolan
| Gender: Male,
Age Bracket: 40 - 49,
State: N/A,
Country: United States |
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120012, simon, Oct 17, 2003 03:48 AM
120029, Silverthorne, Oct 17, 2003 06:59 PM [Pathetic sentencing guidelines]
120044, dp1, Oct 18, 2003 02:54 AM [Juvenile Detention?]
120040, myoung, Oct 18, 2003 02:35 AM [I absolutely agree Silverthorne]
120065, HPierce, Oct 18, 2003 10:40 AM [Wait how can this be???]
120085, myoung, Oct 19, 2003 03:56 AM [H. Pierce]
120104, orolan, Oct 19, 2003 04:07 PM [responsibility]
120149, myoung, Oct 20, 2003 02:53 AM [orolan]
120204, orolan, Oct 20, 2003 08:23 PM [how so?]
120233, myoung, Oct 21, 2003 01:19 AM [orolan]
120262, orolan, Oct 21, 2003 04:27 PM [children versus minors]
120267, steve, Oct 21, 2003 04:55 PM
120275, myoung, Oct 21, 2003 09:23 PM [prime example(sorry it's ...]
120177, Rachel, Oct 20, 2003 11:49 AM [Victim or Offender ?]
120180, myoung, Oct 20, 2003 01:30 PM [rachel]
120181, Rejected
120214, dp1, Oct 20, 2003 11:40 PM [What a bunch of hypocrites]
120249, marta, Oct 21, 2003 02:07 PM [Read the point wrong.]
120254, dp1, Oct 21, 2003 02:50 PM [Point Well Taken]
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