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Originally Posted by problemeliminator
You're gonna have to do lot better than appealing to "common sense". Common sense isn't an argument.
Whether the woman should go to jail or not depends on the circumstances. She should definitely be in trouble though.
Why should the 16 year old not go to jail if it is a crime? If a 16 year old boy robbed a store with an older person does that make him a victim? Why is it legal to have sex with another 16 year old? When you do away with logic it is hard to reach common sense.
Look I am not arguing against age of consent laws. But here is the thing, it used to be understood as common sense that it was very difficult for a man to have sex against his will with a woman, you know erections and all. It used to be understood that a boy having sex with an older non-teenage woman considered himself lucky, not permanently damaged.
I love me to death some Law & Order SVU, but liberals like creator Dick Wolf have radically changed the justice system. You younger folks may not know that pedeophila was previously defined as sexual interest in prepubescent children, not teenagers. Child porn was previously defined as images of children being sexual abused, not child nakedness or even children wearing bathing suits.
The failure to acknowledge that God, in her infinite wisdom, makes people sexual beings at ages 12-14 for the most part, and not on their 18th birthday does more harm than good.