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Carey Gregory wrote:
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> Mr. Probert, perhaps you didn't see this. Would you care to answer?
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This is your "Are you now or have you ever been a pedophile?" question.
People like you in the mid-fifties were finally decried and removed
from the public trust as a menace to the truth.
> >>Interesting. Allow me a question.
> >>
> >>Do you think that if a person believes that they should be totally
> >>discredited?
> >
> >Well, frankly, in my mind it does discredit them on the subjects of
> >childhood development, sexuality, and pedophilia. Reasonable people may
> >disagree on the age of consent (should it be 18, 16...15?), but reasonable
> >people do not believe that children of "any age" have the necessary
> >knowledge, maturity, and experience to give informed consent.
> >
> >Do you really believe that children of any age do?
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Sure.
We do indeed ask consent of each and every child commensurate with
their ability to comprehend, in countless activities each day, and
you pretending that we do not is merely a posturing lie. A wise
parent knows that it is UNWISE to try to do ANYTHING with a child
OF ANY AGE without their consent and assistance.
Sex is not some magical act that is different from any other. Any
insult upon a child's autonomy that they might be subject to is
injurious to their spirit, nor should we inflict any such of the
many possible insults upon a child without their consent, unless
the reason is truly emergent and dire. But they are perfectly able
even before they are verbal to express their consent and enjoyment,
whether by crying or giggling. That is their consent, and we are
constantly attentive to it in our dealings with them.
So you see, children are just as capable of consenting to something
they enjoy as you or I are. And IF they like it and therefore
consent to it, it does not harm them, even if it is sexual.
The only such possible exception might be if an adult understood
it would give them a disease, or would cause physical pain and the
adult persists even when the child objects. It is crucial that
in ALL relationships with their caregivers, that children not be
subjected to what they do not want or enjoy, unless it is truly
and absolutely crucial for their care.
Can children consent? Of course, proper parenting calls upon them
to do it every day! We EVEN send our children out upon the highways
where they may be harmed or killed, and encourage them to play sports
like football, which when looked at medically proves to be far more
dangerous to future health than is. To pretend that is some
totally magical activity to which they must be barred is irrational
when we endanger them for their enjoyment in countless other ways.
It displays the insanity of this ridiculously antisexual religiously
superstitious society and provides good reasons to eradicate such
insane religion with a machinegun and flame-thrower.
Steve
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