A Place of Safety: General Talk » Unlawful acts etc

Show: Today's Messages :: Show Polls :: Message Navigator

Unlawful acts etc [message #54498]

Thu, 30 October 2008 15:05

timmy

Has no life at all

Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
Messages: 13818

I think it is likely that no-one here condones major unlawful acts. In that list I would include robbery, assault (including rape), and other similar acts.

I would not be including parking offences, failure to keep off the grass, etc.

There is a vast difference between discussing them and participating in them. I am content to discuss child pornography until the cows come home. I do not condone the making of it, and I am ambivalent to the viewing of it where money does not change hands between the viewer and the creator (ie no profit is made) unless the viewer actively encourages the creator.

I expect there is a "truth" about desensitising versus encouraging.

Certainly the authorities whose job it is to view the materials do become desensitised to it, but that does not encourage them to create it or to recreate the acts they see.

My view is that if someone is going to hurt a child then they will hurt that child. No pictures (etc) are likely to make that person have a different sexual or power appetite. But what do I know? I don't prey on anyone, let alone kids! So it's just a view.

Why didn't I approach the 10 year old friend of my son's who flirted with me outrageously? He was cute, after all, and seemed to know what he was "doing".

The answer is because I view it as wrong. This is my personal morality which happens to be congruent with the law.

What I do find bizarre is that I can lawfully have sex with a 16 year old, but may not see pictures of him naked!

So, at what point is the offence against morality? The law is clear, but morality is not.

[Updated on: Thu, 30 October 2008 15:32]

Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School

		Unlawful acts etc By: timmy on Thu, 30 October 2008 15:05
		Re: Unlawful acts etc By: saben on Thu, 30 October 2008 21:03
		Re: Unlawful acts etc By: timmy on Thu, 30 October 2008 21:28
		Re: Unlawful acts etc By: acam on Fri, 31 October 2008 11:39
		Re: Unlawful acts etc By: timmy on Fri, 31 October 2008 11:51

Previous Topic:	Little Britain- Homophobic!
Next Topic:	"Sip" and "Peace" by Josh

Goto Forum:

[

]

We support Ukraine — Мы поддерживаем Украину — Ми підтримуємо Україну

We support the Palestinian people in their struggle against oppression