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The Founding Fathers are here, they're saying they'd like a word with you.
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Now that he has been convicted of kidnapping Kotaku can do the decent thing and take the quotation marks out of the title. That he is a kidnapper is now a matter of fact, no need to imply that it's a questionable accusation.
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You know, I somehow understand that having sex with underage girls is wrong, but I'm 30, working in u pub in weekends, and let me tell ya, there plenty of underage girls that are willingly making advances at me, not the other way around.
Now I live in Belgium and people are allowed to drink from 16. So how can I know when a girl that approaches me is 16 or 18? And what's the fucking difference between someone a day under 18, and someone precisely 18? I'm not defending pedophelia, I'm just saying, the younger girls often elicit such behaviour. We're still men, under influence of hormones. If a 17 year old girl starts hitting on me while I'm horny as hell, and she knows she's younger than 18, than who's fucking fault is that? Sorry, I have instincts and a penis.
07/17/09
Here in england the age for sex is 16 and drinking 18 (sort of doesnt make sense i know) so the 17 thing, its fine if I tap that.
but mate, your 30, if you came over to england and ended up in bed with a 16 year old, it'd be legal, but fucking creepy.
your totally right about younger girls initiating, but end of the day, its illegal.
I too have a penis, but also self control.
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Like growing up the girls in HS always had boyfriends that were like 25 or 26 and I was always thinking, if that guy is so cool, why is he messing around with a 14/15/16 year old ? But the girls seemed to enjoy it.... But I mean this story is not that different except he got caught and wore a dress.
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Huh... was that part really relevant to the story? Eh. I wonder if Saddie "Elaine" Julian is the girl's real name... they usually withhold the names of underage offenders, you'd think they would do the same for victims once the situation is under control.
I can't help but wonder if "Elaine" is her WoW character's name... It seems a bit unusual for a nickname.
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...WoW has always been a scary place.
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When I was in High School I made it my job to keep secrets from my parents. Don't get me wrong I love my parents and they were/are wonderful at raising myself and my sisters but they could never expect to fully understand the human mind thus can never fully understand or monitor a teen at all times even in regards to the internet.
07/15/09
Would he still be sentenced to jail time? Tons of 14 year olds and teenagers run away from home or go to live with their significant others every year.
The only reason we're hearing about this one is because its video game related. I just question the morally on both sides of the law in this situation. What the guy did was wrong, but treating a 14 year old like they have no rights or freedom isn't exactly correct either.
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Alabama punch!
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The real question is why we treat inmates so well.
07/15/09
Um, anyway, my basic message was that, for years, I also wondered why we treat inmates so well and I felt that they should suffer more for their crimes. More recently I've realized why our jails are they way they are: all of the people in jail are [generally] a member of a family. People care about them. An inmate may be someone's mom or dad, or someone's brother or sister. We don't want to be destroying people and making them hate the world, when they're already having problems (hence the crime they are in jail for). If you're in jail for some time and it's the worst thing ever and a horrible experience, when you get out you're not going to be a very happy person.
Put aside the reason that the person is in jail, and consider that they are (theoretically) a human, and a person with feelings and conscious advanced thought like any other. Putting them in a horrible environment for some years, and then letting them back into society, is more likely to *promote* their destructive personality traits, rather than help them heal or be "grown out of". Put a person in a healthy environment where they can learn and become better people, and you immediately make it possible for said person to have a better future and *hopefully* stay away from whatever bad stuff they were involved in (both in lifestyle and in mental state) that got them into jail.
I do realize some ppl are a "lost cause" and will never stop being destructive to the world around them, but that isn't everyone, and it's not fair to put everyone in jail into a horrible environment because SOME people are hopelessly destructive and so on.
Anyway, just my $0.02 or whatever. ;)
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Argh! Why am I trying to diagnose the problem? I need to lay off those crime shows.
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I was once 14, at that age i was almost scared of 30 year olds.Ok you can argue that i am different to a 14 year old girl and i do have the advantage of hindsight right now being 20.
Also i dont think my parents would have let me go and see a 30 year old guy alone.
Ah but again this is all in hindsight, we all do something stupid in our life, it makes us into what we are now.
p.s.Also 9 years does not seem long enough for me.