On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 6:01 PM, P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Current mores should never be used to judge the past. To consider this > Rocco pedophilia is simply ignorant. The magic numbers used today for > adulthood were very different in other eras. There's really nothing > very special about numbers such as 13, 16, 18, 21 etc, except what > society makes of them. Romeo and Juliette were 14 years old. Kings in > their preteens married Queens in their 40's and vice versa for dynastic > reasons, (for similar reasons Pharaohs married their sisters), Mohamed > took a 12 year old as his 4th wife. None of this was considered > particularly scandalous during the times they happened. I expect that > our civilization will be viewed with horror by our descendants, though I > couldn't tell you why. The reasons will probably have nothing to do > with what you or I find horrible.
I'm guessing that online kiddy porn will rank right up there... cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
