Seth Gordon wrote: > On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 5:55 PM Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> > wrote: > > > On Mon, 23 Sep 2019 12:55:13 -0400 > > Seth Gordon <se...@ropine.com> wrote: > > > > > The English word “cancer” can refer to anything from a skin tumor > > > that a doctor can remove as an outpatient procedure, to metastatic > > > pancreatic cancer that is certain to kill you within six months. But > > > both of these things are still cancer. > > > > OK, let's go with that analogy. Can you imagine if every cancer, > > including a minor skin tumor, were treated with heavy chemotherapy and > > radiation? > > > > That's what we have when we define everything from taking a leak in a > > woods where, unknown to you, a child was watching, to jumping out from > > behind bushes and raping an 80 year old woman, are defined as sex > > crimes, and the sheep like public is inclined to having a zero > > tolerance policy on sex crimes. There are plenty of people forever on > > the sex offender registry whose crime was having sex with their 1 year > > younger than them girlfriend. > > > > I agree that this is a problem, but the solution to that problem is to > change the law so that not all forms of sexual assault get treated with > this “zero tolerance” policy, not redraw the boundaries of “sexual assault” > itself.
And many (though not all) states have done this. They are generally called "Romeo and Juliet" laws. -dsr- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss