The title of the piece is a bit click-baity, as the court opinion specifically states, as the article notes in its last paragraph, that “because [Gray] was not a minor sending sexually explicit images to another consenting minor, we decline to analyze such a situation.” The title is stated as a fact, wherein it is really the columnist's opinion: "I think that — given the logic of the majority opinion — the analysis would have to ... "
Court OKs child porn prosecution of minors distributing pictures of themselves
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#312Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not OP, but I understand the OPs use of patriarchy as to mean a hierarchical power structure which justifies itself with the claim of protecting the weak, but in the end is just a repressive hierarchy.
You have been 'well educated' indeed to equate patriarchy with top down control structures. This will make the bitter pill of swapping the dreaded patriarchy with a technocracy, that will most certainly have a 'controlling' interest in intimate matters, much easier to swallow.
Everyone I disagree with has been indoctrinated; only I can think for myself. Is that right?
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Actually it does. A majority of housing is no felon. Work is damn tough, and people get paid bottom dollar. In some places you can't vote. A lot of activities prohibit felons too. Being a coach, for example, isn't a walk in the park. And your traffic stops? Ugh. I know this due to a friend stuck with one. Hanging with the wrong people, group case. First offense. It's pretty brutal. In many States expungement isn't po…
Okay, but once you get on those registries you're screwed. Can't live within a certain distance of anyplace a child might be. Schools, parks, day care centers. I remember reading an article about a town in Florida where all the sex offenders were literally living in the same apartment complex because it was the only one left after all the circles were drawn on the map. And if you think felons have a hard time getting…
No argument from me. I just wanted to speak to the felony being a bit more ugly than presented.
We need to improve on all of this somehow. It's too much in way too many scenarios to make sense. And the problem is when it's all appropriate.
Work to be done here. A lot of it.
Re: Court OKs child porn prosecution of minors distributing pictures of themselves
#314Earlier quoted context omitted.
You have been 'well educated' indeed to equate patriarchy with top down control structures. This will make the bitter pill of swapping the dreaded patriarchy with a technocracy, that will most certainly have a 'controlling' interest in intimate matters, much easier to swallow.
Everyone I disagree with has been indoctrinated; only I can think for myself. Is that right?
It is not a question of disagreement. OP is repeating a falacy. And when large numbers of otherwise thoughtful people repeat a falacy then "indoctrination" is on the menu of possibilities.
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#315Earlier quoted context omitted.
Everyone I disagree with has been indoctrinated; only I can think for myself. Is that right?
It is not a question of disagreement. OP is repeating a falacy . And when large numbers of otherwise thoughtful people repeat a falacy then "indoctrination" is on the menu of possibilities.
Do please identify this 'falacy' for us.