GRGR (15): Good & Evil (was Enzian...)
Lorentzen / Nicklaus
lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de
Fri Dec 17 08:27:01 CST 1999
Peter Petto schrieb:
> On 12/15/1999, Lorentzen / Nicklaus wrote:
>
> > But the moral hard case is of course the practice of pedophilia with
> > consenting children. That's where judgements from the outside really
> > become
> > more difficult.
> "consenting children" is a concept that belongs alongside military
> intelligence or civil servant.
Here I was picking up rj's formulation "non-consenting", I did not present
any kind of "concept". Please note that I didn't write "impossible" but "more
difficult". To me it makes a difference, whether, say, somebody fucks a 5 year
old girl, he/she hired on the black market or - & stuff like that happens
empirically - a 12 year boy seduces his teacher. Watch also that, these days,
"childhood" is, in many ways, a "moving target", too. And it's not that simple
that bad old capitalism is ruining the shelter place "childhood". It's much
more difficult. These days most children can't wait to become, well, "young
persons" or something. And though personally I'm not fond of this at all, it
is understandable. We're not in the 19th century anymore. Hell on Earth ...
> (That my little daughter could consent to pedophilia doesn't even make it
> onto my truth table, let alone merit evaluation.)
In case someone would touch my little daughter the wrong way, I'd - at least -
hit him/her hard in the face twice.
KFL
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