If the assertions about me being pro-pedophile were true, and I promoted sexual contact with young children day in and day out (and they're not), that still wouldn't make me a pedophile any more than supporters of gay rights are homosexuals.
Well, while it's true that not everyone that advocates for 'super-rights' for homosexuals is a homosexual; it is true that most of those who do... ARE. And further, that the advocacy OF the normalization of Homosexuality can only result in MORE OF IT... such an advocacy demonstrates, with regard to your assessment relevant to your BEING A CHILD ******, that such is a distinction without a difference.
That you promote such, demonstrates your guilt OF SUCH. Just as were you to be advocating for mass murder; in so doing you would be promoting the interests OF those who engage IN MASS MURDER, thus relegating you to MASS MURDERER STATUS.
... Very little of my focus has been on the capacities of genuine children to offer informed and rational consent (though I'd certainly be willing to acknowledge it if it obviously existed), so much as on the ability of adolescents to do so, and adolescents are merely biological adults infantilized by elements of Western culture rather than genuine children. I've argued that adolescents and some younger people generally have the capacity to make informed and rational decisions about their own welfare, based on such empirical research as Weithorn and Campbell's
The competency of children and adolescents to make informed treatment decisions.
Ahhh yes... SCIENCE! "Empirical EVIDENCE"...
Thus, again, where SCIENCE determines that children are suitable for coitus... this member adheres to that SCIENTIFIC CONCLUSION...
The member finds that Adult/child sex and the relevant taboos are arbitrary and do not reflect the EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE which SCIENCE has objectively observed in establishing their conclusions that 'many children may actually BENEFIT from consensual sexual relationships with adults...'
http://www.ipce.info/library_3/rbt/metaana.pdf
From that empirical research, I've extrapolated my assessment that adolescents and some younger persons generally possess or could generally possess the capacity to make informed and rational decisions about their own welfare. For some reason, posters here saw fit to focus only on sexual issues. I don't know why.
Oh I can help ya with that... this is due to there being no actual cultural benefit for such an opinion, except where the goal is intended to serve an end... and no end has advanced such means MORE VOCIFEROUSLY THAN THE ADVOCATES OF ADULT/CHILD SEX.
The idea is to cull from the discussion any moral underpinnings; thus long standing cultural mores are determined to be unreasonable restrictions on children...
The problem of course comes when one realizes that there is no alternative basis for such 'studies'... thus the entire 'study' is a ruse... one which seeks to do nothing more than establish the erroneous notion that a child is capable of informed consent...
Get that established and VIOLA! It's party time at the DAY CARE!
Actually, there are competency tests that have been proposed, most recently and notably by the psychologist Robert Epstein.
Yes, no doubt they are... and that 'study' is no less a function of that noted above than any other such 'study'...
Further using his logic we should be able to try any teen we want under adult laws when they commit crimes cause after all he insists they are adults.
Gee...
that's right.
And that's precisely what I advocate. All this proves is that you're either ignorant or deliberately dismissive of my opposition to other age restrictions (the working age, the voting age, the drinking age, etc.), and merely focus on the age of sexual consent alone because it makes for good tabloidism.
Well, the reason we don't try teens as adults is that they lack the perspective required to understand the ramifications of their ACTIONS.
Thus, trying a juvenile as a juvenile provides a Mulligan... a "Do-over"... Sexualizing children, rationalizing that they DO possess the perspective to understand the ramifications sets that 'huss' aside...
But there's no end to examples which provide peremptory contest to this drivel...
Go to ANY government sponsored health center... walk into the waiting room and look around... you'll find 20-30 teenage 'girls' sitting there either pregnant or screaching at their snotty nosed hellians... Er.. huh.. their progeny.
Ask them if they were intellectually aware of the full scope of the ramifications of their actions...
Your answer will be a unanimous 'OH HELL NO Honey... I had NO IDEA what I was getting into...' The old days of sleepin' in, waiting for Mommy to come and wake them up for SCHOOL are OVER... the Days of cruising with their buds over the lazy summer ARE BEHIND THEM...
So what we find, through THIS EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE IS THAT: They're ADULTS NOW... They NOW HAVE THE PERSPECTIVE OF AN ADULT. Because they acted as an Adult
BEFORE THEY HAD THE NECESSARY UNDERSTANDING TO PROVIDE INFORMED CONSENT...
Thus, they were not capable of such WHEN YOU CLAIM THAT THEY WERE OTHERWISE PERFECTLY QUALIFIED ....