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To: dogbyte12
Banning consentual behaviour in adults does not make us better, doesn't save our soul, it makes us afraid of Rome, not of God.

Whether any consensual sexual activity between adults has harmful effects on society as a whole is very much open to question. That's what we have legislatures for.

475 posted on 06/28/2003 2:44:19 PM PDT by independentmind
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To: independentmind
I might hit myself in the head with a hammer tomorrow. It frightens me. I need a law banning me from doing it.

Since there is no way, no how, that I would find a naked sweaty hairy man the least bit attractive, I guess that is why I am flummoxed by the amount of passion involved here.

Hitting yourself on the head with a hammer is extremely damaging to yourself. You could get injured, bleed, require medical care, or even die. It might cause brain damage, or disgust people who see you with the claws sticking out of your scalp. Obviously we must set out rules against it. Perhaps I won't hit myself with a hammer, but since it is so tempting to others, it needs to be enforced so that it can not be done. Well, ok, it might still be done by those hammering themselves addicts, but still, it serves a societal good. Hitting oneself on the head with a hammer is bad, and it is in our best interest to prevent people from doing so.

488 posted on 06/28/2003 3:01:12 PM PDT by dogbyte12
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To: independentmind


Whether any consensual sexual activity between adults has harmful effects on society as a whole is very much open to question. That's what we have legislatures for.

-dependentmind-


Not true. Legislatures are only empowered to write constitutional law, not to decide "whether any consensual sexual activity between adults has harmful effects on society as a whole".


Juries decide in civil courts if acts have had harmful effects on those who claimed an injury.
Catch 22, in consensual, noncriminal sex there is no injured party.

-- In attempting to claim society as an 'injured party' you are manufacturing harmful effects.. And decreeing them to be criminal.




533 posted on 06/28/2003 4:20:24 PM PDT by tpaine (Really, I'm trying to be a 'decent human being', but me flesh is weak)
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