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Thread (Discussion): Moral Equivalent?

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Message 118363 (In Reply to Message 118353)
Re: Moral Equivalent?


Posted by x_orolan on Oct 20, 2003 03:41 PM | Also by x_orolan
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"It's your job to fight it, not the government's."
Then why is filing a false report against the law? Why is perjury against the law? If these are civil issues, there shouldn't be criminal statutes that prohibit them. But since there are statutes, I am entitled to that "security" under them that you speak of.

"Then what does?"
Society, as I spelled out in the paragraph you don't understand because you didn't ask me to justify anything. Society dictates change. But society can't all talk at once. A few individuals try to express what society wants, and I see myself as one of those individuals.

"Given that all I asked about was your proposed changes in "he said/she said" related laws"
Actually, you asked a very generic "And what laws are you suggesting?"

"What is the "lack of chastity" defense?"
Come on now. You're the one in law school. And you don't know what this is?
As an example, Mississipi Code § 97-3-67 prohibited a person over the age of 18 years from having sexual intercourse with a person of the opposite sex between the ages of 14 years and 18 years of previous chaste character.
Under this statute, an adult could not be charged if the minor involved was not a virgin at the time of the offense. This law was repealed in 1998(but we used it in our re-write), and replaced with a law that states in part "lack of chastity is not a defense".

Incidentally, the Mississippi Code still contains this language, relevant not to statutory rape but "adult" rape:
...but no person shall be convicted upon the uncorroborated testimony of the injured female.
Our number one Rule of Evidence for he said/she said rape situations.

I wish I could provide you with our new statutory language, but I can't. If we're still "speaking" when it goes to the Senate, I'll see about it then. But the two things I showed you above are an integral part. Yes, we "borrowed" them from Mississippi. But we did that all over the country, picking and choosing what we wanted and didn't want from a lot of other states. So we haven't really "written new statutory language". We've just used the best(in our opinion) language from all over.
Since you're reluctant to move to the new board, we'll leave this here until Steve says we have to go.

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Message 118353
Re: Moral Equivalent?


Posted by x_marta on Oct 19, 2003 08:14 PM | Also by x_marta
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118055, x_marta, Oct 10, 2003 06:17 PM [Moral Equivalent?]
      118128, x_HPierce, Oct 13, 2003 09:03 AM [Yes]
            118165, x_marta, Oct 13, 2003 04:38 PM [I wasn't asking you.]
            118166, x_marta, Oct 13, 2003 04:42 PM [But while we're at it]
      118145, x_TryingtoSurviv, Oct 13, 2003 10:59 AM [Re: Moral Equivalent?]
            118171, x_marta, Oct 13, 2003 07:08 PM [Re: Moral Equivalent?]
                  118321, x_SurvivorForeve, Oct 17, 2003 01:11 AM [Re: Rape VS BS]
                        118336, x_marta, Oct 17, 2003 08:28 PM [Re: Rape VS BS]
                              118340, x_SurvivorForeve, Oct 17, 2003 11:11 PM [Re: What to do!]
            118185, x_marta, Oct 13, 2003 07:44 PM [Trying to Survive]
            118243, x_marta, Oct 14, 2003 06:25 PM [That's What I Thought]
            118245, x_orolan, Oct 14, 2003 07:20 PM [Re: Moral Equivalent?]
                  118253, x_marta, Oct 14, 2003 08:45 PM [Re: Moral Equivalent?]
                        118275, x_orolan, Oct 15, 2003 10:50 AM [Re: Moral Equivalent?]
                              118292, x_marta, Oct 15, 2003 08:07 PM [Re: Moral Equivalent?]
                                    118300, x_orolan, Oct 15, 2003 11:28 PM [Re: Moral Equivalent?]
                                          118318, x_marta, Oct 16, 2003 07:59 PM [Re: Moral Equivalent?]
                                                118327, x_orolan, Oct 17, 2003 12:04 PM [Re: Moral Equivalent?]
                                                      118338, x_marta, Oct 17, 2003 08:40 PM [Re: Moral Equivalent?]
                                                            118350, x_orolan, Oct 19, 2003 11:57 AM [Re: Moral Equival...]
                                                                  118353, x_marta, Oct 19, 2003 08:14 PM [Re: Moral Equiv...]
                                                                        118363, x_orolan, Oct 20, 2003 03:41 PM [Re: Moral ...]
                                                                              118370, x_marta, Oct 21, 2003 09:10 AM [Re: Mora...]
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