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To: Kevin Curry
Well what's a "child"? Is there something magic about the age of 18? We have age of consent laws because it would difficult for the state to judge consent in each and every case. Where exactly we draw the line is to some degree arbitrary - there are plenty of 18 year olds who too immature to have sex and some 16 year olds who are. A point of fact is that in many states and countries the age of consent is 16 so this isn't really that big a moral dilemma - no more so than a 17-year-old having sex where the age of consent is 18.
475 posted on 12/23/2001 6:58:55 PM PST by garbanzo
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To: garbanzo
Well what's a "child"? Is there something magic about the age of 18?

If this kid's parents were still supporting him and paying his medical bills, these other people didn't have a right to interfere in the family. What you do with your own kid might be one thing, but you have no rights at all in my family deciding behind my back what you will do with my child. A child is a child until they are self-sufficient or can be which is about 18.

486 posted on 12/23/2001 7:33:15 PM PST by FITZ
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To: garbanzo
Well sir,

There either "is" a God who has these rules, or there "is not" such a God. There is NO gray area between the two. What you believe WILL NOT change the situation, it merely changes the result after your death. What I believe will not change the universe either.

But what I believe WILL CHANGE my condition after death.

Scholars have argued since before Babylon which religion is "right" ... and to date, only one Man has returned from the dead to tell us.

Now, the decision whether you (or I) live as required by His law, or in violation of that Law is your (or mine) to do. That's why you call it "faith" .... I cannot "prove" my faith to you, nor can I argue it's subtle points in a purely logically. Religious changes (in an adult) are called "conversion" for a reason. Religion is not, and cannot be ever, "argued" between two adults based on logic.

The morass of evil this boy sunk into (goaded by endless hours of immoral, sex-is-everything-in-life-there-is-nothing-else-important TV ? Likely.) may, or may not have, entombed him permanently. What is evil are the "friends" who assisted him in a crime, and (worse) in doing something sinful immediately before death. And THAT is evil. It may have been his choice, but it is still evil.

Did he "enjoy" his 3 seconds of climax? Maybe.

(Note to those who tell me "not to judge" the boy. Repeat: I'M not judging him, God is judging him.) I'm merely repeating the Law that He wrote.

488 posted on 12/23/2001 7:36:24 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE
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