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Aren't all of those sexting teenagers "sex offenders" according to the inexcusable USA laws? Which really makes me want to stand up and go burn a church or two

Aren't all of those sexting teenagers "sex offenders" according to the inexcusable USA laws? Which really makes me want to stand up and go burn a church or two.

jerf 14y ago
While I'm sure you can find many church members who would say it's wrong for teens to send nude photos to each other, I doubt you're going to find a lot of support for harsh, punitive government actions in response. For that matter, I suspect you can find a lot of non-church members who would agree on one level or another its wrong (or at the very least a bad idea), but also would not agree to harsh punitive government actions. This is out of control government and policians fearful to be seen being even remotely soft on child porn lest they get smeared by their opponents in the next election, not the ever-less-Puritan American public or any portion thereof.
- guard-of-terra 14y ago
  The peoblem is, we have an out of control situation and an utter lack of people to blame for this. Everyone it kind of not supporting the shit but nobody actively prevents the shit from happening. The people to blame for this is the people not to blame for this.
  - jerf 14y ago
    No, I'm pretty comfortable blaming lawmakers for this. It's their job to keep the laws up-to-date, and they've failed in this case. It isn't random people on the street locking these kids up, except by a very extended and tenuous (albeit real, but still, small) connection, it's the lawmakers who keep it illegal without regard to human costs, who would rather send teens to prison and blaze them with the closest thing our society has to a Scarlet A (and ours is in many ways worse, certainly harder to escape), rather than risk their reelection prospects, who are to blame. It may feel more gratifying to blame it on $DUMB_YOKELS, but given that this problem seems to exist everywhere regardless of their influence, it would seem to be an emotionally-driven decision, not a logical one.
    - guard-of-terra 14y ago
      Lawmakers are just an example of people doing their job poorly. The only people ever defending these broken measures happen to "believe".
  - akkartik 14y ago
    Tragedy of the commons.
- sek 14y ago
  Weren't there cases where underage girls got charged for distributing child porn? This is so ridiculous when you think about it, destroying the life of the individual the law should protect.

Aren't all of those sexting teenagers "sex offenders" according to the inexcusable USA laws? Which really makes me want to stand up and go burn a church or two.

jerf 14y ago

While I'm sure you can find many church members who would say it's wrong for teens to send nude photos to each other, I doubt you're going to find a lot of support for harsh, punitive government actions in response. For that matter, I suspect you can find a lot of non-church members who would agree on one level or another its wrong (or at the very least a bad idea), but also would not agree to harsh punitive government actions. This is out of control government and policians fearful to be seen being even remotely soft on child porn lest they get smeared by their opponents in the next election, not the ever-less-Puritan American public or any portion thereof.

guard-of-terra 14y ago
The peoblem is, we have an out of control situation and an utter lack of people to blame for this. Everyone it kind of not supporting the shit but nobody actively prevents the shit from happening. The people to blame for this is the people not to blame for this.
- jerf 14y ago
  No, I'm pretty comfortable blaming lawmakers for this. It's their job to keep the laws up-to-date, and they've failed in this case. It isn't random people on the street locking these kids up, except by a very extended and tenuous (albeit real, but still, small) connection, it's the lawmakers who keep it illegal without regard to human costs, who would rather send teens to prison and blaze them with the closest thing our society has to a Scarlet A (and ours is in many ways worse, certainly harder to escape), rather than risk their reelection prospects, who are to blame. It may feel more gratifying to blame it on $DUMB_YOKELS, but given that this problem seems to exist everywhere regardless of their influence, it would seem to be an emotionally-driven decision, not a logical one.
  - guard-of-terra 14y ago
    Lawmakers are just an example of people doing their job poorly. The only people ever defending these broken measures happen to "believe".
- akkartik 14y ago
  Tragedy of the commons.
sek 14y ago
Weren't there cases where underage girls got charged for distributing child porn? This is so ridiculous when you think about it, destroying the life of the individual the law should protect.