GRGR (15): Good & Evil (was Enzian...)

Peter Petto ppetto at apk.net
Fri Dec 17 10:49:24 CST 1999


Lorentzen / Nicklaus wrote:

> > "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 
> ...

Mebbe. I just don't see any of these issues in GR.

> > (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.

Yes.




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