Cantelo wrote:Antityranicals wrote:Why is it that just because I don't believe that people should be jailed for something that I am suddenly supporting it? The law doesn't exist to push forward morality, it exists to protect people from having their rights violated. And given how my rights are mine, and nobody else's, if I decide, with the full power and capability to do something about it, that my rights are not being violated, they are, in fact, not being violated. And I hate to break it to you, but adults prey sexually on adults all of the time. The exact same arguments you use about predators and sex with minors could be used to ban premarital sex altogether. However, a toxic relationship, however horrible, is not a crime unless someone's rights are being violated. And you're starting to get into scary territory. If the law doesn't exist for the benefit of the victim, who exactly does it exist for?
You may be surprised to learn that adults who prey on adults are also rapists, manipulators, and overall horrifically toxic people. Adults that do that to children are even worse because children do not have the same maturity, weariness, or understanding of how adults function.
Any sexual encounter between an adult and a child is rape because the child isn’t mature enough to consent. I don’t give a fuck about what paper-thin pseudo-intellectual reasoning you might give to support child rape, but it’s objectively wrong. You are effectively condoning and supporting the legal definition of child rape, there is zero way for you to pretzel that into some pretentiously philosophical argument in favor of granting kids the ability to get strong armed into having sex with predators.
Being a horrible person isn't a crime. What I am supporting is not a decriminalization, but a refocusing of criminal justice on what matters: ensuring that the victim is recompensed for harms done against him or her. Everything else is just the state flexing. If a rape victim wants his or her rapist sentenced to a life of hard labor, with the proceeds going to said victim, I am entirely in favor of that happening. However, you forget that in order for an act to be rape, it must be non-consensual. And I'm afraid that absolutely nobody but the victim will ever be in a position to determine that.