I'm worried about the boy, he might hurt his throat with all the bragging once he gets back to school, and his back and hands will probably be really sore after all those back slaps and high fives. He's certainly in for a rough time in the future.
This line of thinking terrifies me on many levels, for many reasons. It is a sort of thought that cannot be unthunk, and troubles deeply.Novania said:So that's why she has 3 kids...
I'm not saying he can't, but you guys sure are getting riled up over a simple news article, including you. Why can't you calm down and just try and have a civilized discussion instead of trying to start a flame war? But since I can tell you have no ability to do such a thing, I will no longer bother responding to any of your posts, as they'll probably be all insults.HG131 said:]I might not completely agree with him, but he isn't a Jedi so stop expecting him to be one. He's allowed emotion and he's showing emotion. Oh, and if you ever want us gamers to be respected, stop degrading our methods of communication. I bet you that in the past the phrases "It's just a PHONE argument!" were used. Stop making us look bad.
Indeed rape is more about power than sex so there's no reason there would be a gender difference. It's why otherwise straight men rape boys. At least that's how I've had it explained to me and it makes sense.The_root_of_all_evil said:And her being 23 would have been ok?
Just goes to show you that there is no gender difference between the sick fucks out there.
Yes because bragging that you had sex with an ugly woman you met on Xboxlive is grounds for high fives.NickCooley said:I'm worried about the boy, he might hurt his throat with all the bragging once he gets back to school, and his back and hands will probably be really sore after all those back slaps and high fives. He's certainly in for a rough time in the future.
Alright, since you said please and did not retort back in any way offensive, I'll lower my guard down and accept your request.HG131 said:Please do respond to this post.
I may not agree with your assessment of the situation, but I do have to applaud you here for a quick and rather well thought out response. I still don't agree, but I'm respecting you for putting out your opinion in such a manner that is well, honestly rare these days. All I may offer now is my apologies for the improper remarks earlier from my previous posts, since kind words cause me to drop any sort of anger I may carry, it's rather odd how such few words can seriously calm me down. If only more people would be like you in a way, HG.It is not a simple news article to some readers. To some, it is important for some reason or another. It may cause moral outrage, whether at the cops or at the woman. It may have something to do with their past. They may just be bored. For whatever reason, people tend to get emotionally invested in things they cannot change or effect. I have cried over the death of fictional characters twice in my life, for example. Once when I was I believe 5 and once last summer. Just because we have no impact on the outcome of events does not mean that we do not show extreme interest or care about them.
Possibly. I still don't think this kid should be supported for having sex with a woman 3 times his age. This is creating a gender gap.HG131 said:The woman is made uglier by the prison photograph. I'm sure with the kind of makeup women normally wear combined with sleep, relaxation and just some general time to clean up she'd most likely be at least mildly attractive. There is also the possibility that he'll look back upon this event with disdain for his parents for ruining what, for him, may have been awesome. There's also the possibility he'll play the victim at their request to make large sums of a monetary settlement.
I want to say I can sympathise with these kids, but I really could never even begin to imagine, for all my psychology teachings, how that kind of thing would affect them. Some people just become hardened to it, and in that lies great danger, whilst others become very emotionally injured by being associated with that kind of thing, and become ostracised. Neither of these is even near optimal, to say the least.Diamondback One said:EDIT: Also I agree with the above user, I feel sorry for the kids and the crap they're going to have to deal with from this.
You used an extreme point to gain ground. The point is, the woman may have had other motifs. I'm not saying her sole purpose was robbbery, I'm not that stupid. What I am saying, though, is that the REAL problem is that this woman could have taken advantage of this kid in other ways.HG131 said:This would be an extremely elaborate ploy to gain cash through robbery. There are many other, much easier, much less criminal methods of committing theft. Personally, I do not think this was ok but I do not feel this was evil, nor would I if the genders were reversed. The only reason humanity looks down upon this at this point is due to artificial morals put in place by a society that arbitrary chose different ages for different milestones in laws, often fueled by greed. Biologically, he is ready to reproduce. Humanity's number one function, bred into us before we and chimpanzees even split from our common ancestor, is to reproduce. We evolved upright walking to carry more food to bribe the females to let us... reproduce. Basically, we evolved to what we have become because we wanted to get laid. So, our morals are simply artificial constructions in an artificial world where little has any real reason for existing besides that which we make up for it. Our money is worthless paper. Our jobs are often made for a person with alot of this worthless paper to make more of it. Our laws are constructed around what can get the friend of a lawmaker as much of this worthless paper to get themselves this worthless paper. Our society is based around worthless scraps of paper. Basically, everything we know morally besides for a few fundamental facts like don't kill or rape or rob or treat others how they would not like to be treated is made up for some strange reason or another. It could be religion. It could be the aforementioned worthless paper. It might just be because, for some reason, we think it's wrong. But the only true moral is don't do things to people they don't want. Everything else is made up and worthless. He most likely won't be mentally traumatized by this unless the parents and the multitude of doctors he's forced to see and the many people telling him his feelings were wrong and fake and forced cause it. Those are the real problems, our made up morals for a silly little world.VanityGirl said:Possibly. I still don't think this kid should be supported for having sex with a woman 3 times his age. This is creating a gender gap.HG131 said:The woman is made uglier by the prison photograph. I'm sure with the kind of makeup women normally wear combined with sleep, relaxation and just some general time to clean up she'd most likely be at least mildly attractive. There is also the possibility that he'll look back upon this event with disdain for his parents for ruining what, for him, may have been awesome. There's also the possibility he'll play the victim at their request to make large sums of a monetary settlement.
"Hey a 36 year old woman had a 13 year old boy. OMG AWESOME"
"OMG that 36 year old guy had sex with a 13 year old girl! What a pervert!"
Do you see the problem here?
Why did this woman go after a child? What motifs did she have? What is she planned to rob the child's parents?
I bet people wouldn't be high fiving him then.
There's a lot more to this than just some kid "getting some".
EDIT: Sorry, that went a little deeper into my mind than I intended to.