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To: Dimensio; Frapster
but I'll say yes -- it should be viewed differently if informed consent can be demonstrated. I'll also state that I don't believe it possible to demonstrate informed consent because I don't believe that it can ever occur in such a situation.

Let’s get our facts straight. Informed Consent is for medical treatment and a legal contract which is not required for sexual relations between “consenting people”, simple consent is strictly demonstrating “mental capacity”. Mental capacity for an emancipated individual in most states is 70-75 adult IQ, it’s also the threshold now being used in determining the applicability of the death penalty. The truth is many children have the “mental capacity” to consent and only arbitrary age laws forbids it.

Dim., That means you would allow children to engage in sexual behavior that would further demoralize our society into your Liberaltarian utopia. Just add this one on to your list, now you must admit incest, bestiality and pedophilia along with homosexuality make the four legs of the table that will bring our society down to the basest repugnance it can possibly be. It’s not where I want to live, why don’t you try Amsterdam?

167 posted on 08/09/2002 3:02:01 PM PDT by Clint N. Suhks
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To: Clint N. Suhks
The truth is many children have the “mental capacity” to consent and only arbitrary age laws forbids it.

Okay, I'll rephrase. I think that adult-child sexual relations would be acceptable if it could be demonstrated that such would not cause pyschological harm to the child and that the child were able to fully understand the consequences of such relations and I do not believe that such a situation will ever exist.

hat means you would allow children to engage in sexual behavior that would further demoralize our society into your Liberaltarian utopia.

Do not put words into my mouth. It is incredibly arrogant and pretentious.
253 posted on 08/12/2002 5:19:18 AM PDT by Dimensio
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