This is a matter where jury nullification is of the greatest importance. Ohio has 88 counties. To have 88 different laws would subject people to such complexity as to make them vulnerable to persecution and prosecution. Community standards would best be expressed by jury nullification. I understand,that in Texas up until about fifty years ago, if a man found his wife in the act of serving the pleasure of another man and he shot them he would most likely not be charged with any offense, since it was generally understood that the jury would not find him guilty.
For life and liberty, David Macko ----- Original Message ----- From: terry12622000 To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 1:13 PM Subject: [Libertarian] Re: LP's poor showing nationally if the sex is conentual then its not pefophilla and non of the sexpartners are children, if any of the sex partners is a child and the other is an adult the adult is agressing against the child, the jury and courts can determine if the male or female is a child or adult, legislation on age of consent might help at the county level in most states or even the state level in a small compact state like New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine or Delaware but the legislation can only be a guideline for contracts and giving law enforcement officers and prosecutors some protection against lawsuits but legislation should never be the last word over due process in any matter including age of consent.--- In [email protected], Vic Cinc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ma ni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Vic, > > > > I what you are saying is you don't think libertarian philosophy > > views pedophilia as aggression, you would be incorrect. > > Pedophilia, being a non-consensual sex crime that has a direct > > victim, is true initiated aggression. (Just curious: where did > > you get the idea that is wasn't?) > > I think youll find that most paedophiles work on getting what they want > in a consensual manner. there is rarely aggression, when there is > agression it make headlines and is not good for business. you are > probably thinking of men in coats nabing kids into cars after > offering them lolies. > > most acts are done from relatives, friends, neighbours or employs etc winning trust of > parents and seducing a child when the parents are not about. the harm > only occurs in the eyes of the parents and others. its not until the > child sees the response in others that they consider any harm has taken place. > > what you have here in the usual cases, is no real physical agression > but a moral agression. > > a simple non agression pact does not cover this case, because what a > parent wants is a moral pact, that says you dont apply your morality > on my child. > > Vic > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
