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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