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Originally Posted by Dharma  Angela, that's as bad as people using Hitler and Holocaust references in IM/LOA posts. Depth please. I know you can do it.
(Yes, and I just realized I'm putting my expectations on you when it's really my own problem with your response. You're fine as you are. Ooops. I'll post this anyway to show my underbelly.) |
Hi, Dharma -- I don't that's an accurate comparison. The OP asks:
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Why are there social and legal laws that restrict people’s freedom to choose what they can and cannot do?
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...and my question personalizing the issue is meant to discover what comes up from an internal check in the matter.
For me, an internal check on the issue of adults having sex with children, gives me access to an answer to the OP's question: I'm very glad to have been protected from adults who would like to have had sex with me when I was too young to deal with it effectively, and I'm very glad to support that same protection for children now.
When I was a little girl I recognized but did not understand how creepy it was for adult men to be putting the moves on me. Now, from an adult perspective, I have more understanding of how manipulative and win/lose the men were -- the power-over they were demonstrating. It's too much to ask of a child to handle that kind of power-over on her (or his) own. I feel quite good about the adult responsibility for supporting and protecting children.
I know.
