----- Original Message ----- From: "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 8:08 PM Subject: Re: Incest
> > I still don't think you understood what I wrote. Would you care to tell > me specifically where you think I wrote "ignorantly"? > Certainly: It is "The exact age of consent for different activities and different cultures and different people varies quite a bit. Best possible world -- a determination would be made on a case-by-case basis whether a "child" was able to consent to certain activities based on the child's development and the activity. But we aren't that sophisticated yet, so in America we just choose 18 for sex and that's it." I took it as stating that incestual activities are the same as activities with a peer. For example, a 14 year old boy who convinces a 14 year old girl to let him get to third base is not strongly correlated with long term psychological damage. A favorite uncle who talks his niece into the same activity does cause damage. FWIW, it wasn't really emotion that guided the brevity of my original post. It was partially an experiment in how you treated posts that are similar to your response to others. I was guessing that the effects of incest is not a subject that you are overly familiar with. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
