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The people who wrote those laws need a stern talking to. They don't even seem to consider that some teenager could text them a photo of themselves, call the cop
by RHSeeger 7y ago
The people who wrote those laws need a stern talking to. They don't even seem to consider that some teenager could text them a photo of themselves, call the cops, and get them arrested for child pornography. Heck, they could send them a text talking about doing something with them and have the same happen in some states. The laws are exceedingly over-broad.
- fuzz4lyfe 7y agoThe people who wrote those laws are in a care home or dead. The people who haven't bothered to update them need to be talked to.
- close04 7y agoI was always puzzled by how laws that treat cases where the same person is both victim and culprit for the very same thing work. Is a failed suicide treated as attempted murder?
- lonelappde 7y agoIt's prosecutors who choose vases to prosecute. Usually prudish, slut-shaming, patriarchal, myaogynistic prosecutors.
- RHSeeger 7y agoThe problem is that there will _always_ be prosecutors that abuse their power. It's the nature of people. It just so happens that certain professions abusing their power are far more devastating to the people they impact (lawyers, police, etc). As such, we should be making laws that are harder for them to abuse. We have many "we'll give them more power, so they can use it where needed and just not abuse it" laws that constantly get abused.