LadyPact -> RE: female circumcision and slavery (8/10/2016 8:56:50 PM)
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ORIGINAL: UllrsIshtar I totally agree with you that a sensible, ethical person would have reported anybody seeking to do such a thing to minors... But playing devil's advsocate for a second... While I greatly enjoy talking with you on a number of subjects, I think you and I are on different opinions on this. So, let's play. quote:
He's not in a profession where he has a mandatory duty to report, and in CA one is not required legally to report crimes (or potential crimes). That's not it. It wasn't "failure to report". It was "conspiracy to commit". Legally, there's a difference. It means the OP didn't get some kind of one-off offer. It means he continued to engage. He didn't say, "no, I refuse because the potential recipients are eight and ten years old". That's not consensual kink! If it is, we ought to throw out the welcome mat for NAMBLA. quote:
As such, when it comes to the sting set up for him, he wasn't actually obligated to report anything. From the OP's own link, he was also engaging in kiddie porn. What's his excuse for that? quote:
Should he have done so as a decent human being? Fuck yes. Was he legally required to do so? Nope. Eight and ten. This whole thread is about a person contemplating his kind with persons who were eight and ten. And, for what it's worth, that '20 million dollar BS? Decent people don't have to think about that. quote:
Which leaves the fact that he was forced into a plea bargain over a crime he did not commit, because the DA knew that in a trial the 'technicality' of him not actually having committed a crime wouldn't matter, because of the shock value of what he did do with Robyn, and because he just has a nasty (as is clear on this thread) personality. Nobody's forced to do sh^t. The guy was dirty. I'm inclined to think there were several skeletons in the closet. quote:
I'm personally rather offended that the government would force jail time and sex offender registration when they couldn't actually prove criminal behavior, just because they find something a citizen does distasteful. He didn't bite on the sting. Not even when offered 20 million dollars. Which is all that should matter from a legal point of view, considering that legally he didn't have an obligation to report. We might find it morally reprehensible that he didn't report it, but once we start throwing people in jail just because some people find their -legal- behavior morally reprehensible, we can throw the entire country in jail, because everybody does something which somebody else, somewhere considers morally reprehensible... which is exactly why we have laws to define what is and isn't okay. Yes, he did. The fact that he even had to THINK about it??? Eight and ten years old, Ish. Would you really have to think about that? Between consenting adults, I don't give a sh^t. Wanna do body mods? Have a blast! Pin your ears, split your tongue, do any of that stuff... I don't care. If you are grown, do what you want to do. A proposition about a child? Yeah, we're going to have a bad day.
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