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So if the charges are dropped does that mean drugging a minor for sodomy is acceptable?

 

You know, talking about facts...

 

Come now, PK. Let us not be disingenuous.

 

A person has made an allegation, which another person has denied. We may have our suspicions, but we don't have FACTS.

 

The dropping of the charges has nothing to do with whether the alleged behaviour is acceptable or not. Drugging women in order to have sex with them is wrong however old or young they are.

 

These are two entirely different things, but I suspect you knew that.

 

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Maybe not in the same class - if it was consensual - but various politicians, celebrities etc aren't saying that it is ok for the care-home workers to abscond and escape from the judicial consequences of their actions.

 

But if the facts are as stated - drugged, continued after she said no, sodomized after she said no, has a history of such actions - then I do not think there is any large difference between Polanski and the care-worker.

 

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Come now, PK. Let us not be disingenuous.

 

A person has made an allegation, which another person has denied. We may have our suspicions, but we don't have FACTS.

 

The dropping of the charges has nothing to do with whether the alleged behaviour is acceptable or not. Drugging women in order to have sex with them is wrong however old or young they are.

 

These are two entirely different things, but I suspect you knew that.

You can get your shoulders re-done here.

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Maybe not in the same class - if it was consensual - but various politicians, celebrities etc aren't saying that it is ok for the care-home workers to abscond and escape from the judicial consequences of their actions.

 

But if the facts are as stated - drugged, continued after she said no, sodomized after she said no, has a history of such actions - then I do not think there is any large difference between Polanski and the care-worker.

 

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Care to expand on "has a history of such actions". Or are you just repeating tittle-tattle. Saw it on the Internet, so it must be true?

 

And the reason that politicians and "celebrities" (whatever they are) are not sticking up for the care workers is because it's a totally different class of abuse. I'm very surprised you can't see that.

 

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Drugging women in order to have sex with them is wrong however old or young they are.

And a 44 year old having sex with a 13 year old?

 

Depends on the laws of the land as previously stated.

 

No it doesn't. Apartheid was the law of the land in South Africa but it was still wrong, the gas chambers were legal in Nazi Europe but wrong. Whether slavery is legal in a particular country or at a particular time doesn't stop it make it right. Some things there is no moral equivalency about.

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Drugging women in order to have sex with them is wrong however old or young they are.

And a 44 year old having sex with a 13 year old?

 

Depends on the laws of the land as previously stated.

 

No it doesn't. Apartheid was the law of the land in South Africa but it was still wrong, the gas chambers were legal in Nazi Europe but wrong. Whether slavery is legal in a particular country or at a particular time doesn't stop it make it right. Some things there is no moral equivalency about.

 

I'm afriad your wrong. The law doesnt care about moral equivalancy. If the peoples of these nations felt that it is wrong then surely as a nation they should push for it to be changed.

 

Have sex with a 13 year old in Spain...legal.

Have sex with a 13 year old in the UK...illegal.

 

I understand that it is disgusting from a moral angle but from a legal one it is not. I'm sure if you went to Spain and started outing people who had sex with 13 year old as paedos, you'd be on the wrong side of the law pretty quick. Again this is twisted but thats the law. Like it or change it.

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Right & Wrong are not the same as legal & illegal.

 

Never a truer statement...

 

It might be wrong to sleep with 13 years in some places. But it is not illegal. And at the end of the day its the law that decides if you get put away or not.

 

Maybe if enough people stood up and demanded a change maybe you wouldn't get "paedo tourists" who make a point of travelling to places with a low age of consent so that they can "get away with it".

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Right & Wrong are not the same as legal & illegal.

 

Never a truer statement...

 

It might be wrong to sleep with 13 years in some places. But it is not illegal. And at the end of the day its the law that decides if you get put away or not.

 

Maybe if enough people stood up and demanded a change maybe you wouldn't get "paedo tourists" who make a point of travelling to places with a low age of consent so that they can "get away with it".

 

 

So we've come full circle and I'm left wondering again what point you are making by mention the age of consent in Spain.

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