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Originally Posted by newsbone  Why should a specific group of people who hold the power of decision making see it fit to trample on other peoples right just because they assume that they are right and others have no choice but to accept that they are wrong. |
If you're talking about the specific group of people who feel as I do, that adults don't have a right to do sex to children, the only reason I can think of is democracy -- a majority of us feel strongly (at least here in the U.S.; I don't know about Uganda/Kenya) and we have structures in place to enforce the majority's position.
I don't think you who disagree "have no choice but to accept that they are wrong." You still have infinite choice. You could have sex with children and pay the consequences of societal influence and still feel right. You could clandestinely have sex with children and not get caught and still feel right. You could feel right and and choose to express your desires in ways that have consequences you can live comfortably with. You could choose to live in a community where it's okay, if there are any left, or try to build one of your own. On and on.. you have loads of choice.
There's a practice in Africa in which men, believing that having sex with a virgin will cure them of AIDS, routinely rape children, ignorantly infecting the kids with the AIDS virus, dying themselves anyway, and thus hastening their groups toward extinction. My guess is that many of them they feel "right" about what they're doing. When I read and hear about such practices, I am very sorry for those people and at the same time very glad to be living in the U.S. where such practices are looked upon by society as barbaric and stupid. At the moment, making a positive difference about such things, in accordance with my views, is beyond my reach for the most part (not entirely), but I have more power to have a voice here in the U.S. on such matters, and so that's where I wield my power to protect, paying forward the protection I'm grateful to have received when I was a child.
But I don't begrudge you your views! Just letting you know mine.