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That's evading the question

Posted by Errant on 2020-July-25 03:05:17, Saturday
In reply to Cops don't enforce morality, they enforce laws. posted by Harbinger on 2020-July-24 17:06:09, Friday

Certainly you can't be invoking the Nuremberg Defense for enforcing anything that happens to be a law, can you?

So... to treat the question seriously we need to do a little deconstruction.

Obviously, most people would consider the enforcement of personal morality to be outside the purview of the law. Problem is that most people don't see intergenerational sex as strictly a matter of personal morality; they believe that the action produces real harm. Not just "real" harm, but the worst form of harm imaginable. We could be waterboaring kindergartners and the outrage would not be too dissimilar. If anything, you could have kids performing beheadings in extremist propaganda videos and not encounter the same degree of rage among the chattering classes over how traumatizing it is to turn a child into an executioner.

So the problem with the question is that it assumes that people think that giving little Jimmy a P-spot lesson is merely a matter of private personal values when in fact it strikes to the core of what most people consider to be the objective "truth" of what constitutes harm. And when we live in a culture where "microaggressions" are considered emotionally harmful, it's no small task to get them to feel differently about the supposed "harm" of underage rimming.

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