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i just don't see how allowing children who are not emotionally, mentally or physically mature enough to perform such deeds to do so will help.
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You're saying that as though it isn't true that children don't screw anyway.
The fact of the matter is that they do. We just don't like to admit it as being sexual because that would harm their "innocence" or whatever crap. They fondle each other, they fool around, they're horny little beasts, who actually ARE capable of orgasm, even boys.
Why is there this preconcieved "mature enough" barrier in terms of emotions, mental state and physical development? I assure you that it doesn't exist. If it was the case that kids weren't capable of it, then they wouldn't be doing it, but the fact of the matter is that they are, and it's pissing society off.
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On the topic of the Greeks, the Greeks only taught/did things with young teenagers when they deemed them physically and mentally mature. Which is completely different to saying "Oh, the Greeks shagged kids, surely we can!"
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But they
did shag kids. Young teenagers ARE kids. The fact that they're physically and mentally mature is subjective to who is making those observations, but beyond that it still doesn't change the fact that they are just kids - kids who are capable of ejaculating or becoming pregnant, but still kids nonetheless. If these greeks did what they did then in today's society they would be branded pedophiles, and demonized by the news media. But back then it was fine with them, it wasn't an issue. Young or old, it didn't matter, sex was NOT taboo. So surely that's the whole point? They were a society in which sex wasn't an issue - our current society is one where sex very much is an issue. And look how it is affecting us. We see sex with kids as wrong, and we are a society which considers sex to be an issue. They saw sex with kids as normal, and they were a society which considered sex to not be an issue.
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besides, even if that was the case our two societies are incredibly different now and so that argument is obsolete.
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I don't follow your logic. It would seem to me that the fact that our two societies are indredibly different is the very essense and basis of the argument. We're comparing our society, one which considers sex to be a taboo, to a society which wasn't bothered by sex.
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On the animal topic - i'm not arrogant enough to distance ourselves from animals that much, and i agree totally that we are animals, but our emotions are far more developed than that of an animals and thus we're far more capable of being emotionally fudged up.
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But in that sense you're comparing rape victims to consensual (for want of a better word) f
uckers. Yes, someone forcing you to have sex with them is scary and can mess some people up, but I don't see how just plain having sex with people, no forcing involved, would mess someone up if sex wasn't a bad thing. Being 11 years old and having consensual sex with a 34 year old housewife in a society that doesn't consider sex to be bad, or a violation of innocence, or whatever, then it's not going to have any kind of adverse affect on someone.
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You still haven't answered my question on exactly how does society make sex bad?
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Society doesn't make sex bad, society simply says that sex is bad. It stems from religion, the christian faith as it likes to call itself, which preached pretty early on in the modern world's development that god says sex is sinful, and should only be done if you intend on getting a woman pregnant. As an atheist I don't particularly enjoy being part of a society who's values come from a religion that I don't subscribe to, but there we go. There are some things that I guess we just have to live with.