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posted on April 24th, 2007, 11:10 pm

Can you even say that they are psychologically ready for that kind of trauma?  Because trauma is what it is at that age.

posted on April 24th, 2007, 11:18 pm

Under US law, that is in fact statutory rape. Which is fairly dumb (they raped each other at the same time, apparently) because rape is about power, not sex, but still the law.
Oh, and... yeah, taking one example to show a trend is a bit silly, IMO. Everyone does it, of course, and everyone in politics exploits it.
'Kay I'm done, don't want to rant here.

posted on April 24th, 2007, 11:31 pm

Indeed it's silly, but the fact that the kids would be stupid enough is silly as well.  Alternatively, if the parents had any part in encouraging sexual behavior, (or at least not discouraging it) that would be silly as well.

However, all of the above are tragic and wrong, and we can't lose sight of that.

posted on April 25th, 2007, 5:23 am

Well common cents is is very uncommon. I am surprised we have not killed each other of by now.   

Agreed. if we do not learn from mistakes we are doomed  to repeat them.

posted on April 25th, 2007, 4:22 pm

I completely agree.

posted on April 25th, 2007, 5:27 pm

I'm over trying to educate ewm90 about reality, he is far too young and naive now to ever know what I say and understand it; I just pity him for in his future these lessons will be taught, not by words but by blood. 

posted on April 26th, 2007, 4:01 am

I am 28 how old are you know it all?

posted on April 26th, 2007, 7:36 am

Wisdom is nothing to do with age, Ive just been in college for over 7 years now and had a lot of hard times to just get into college and have what I have, trying to get a doctorate in aerospace engineering.  Sometimes in life fate is ever so cruel when you lose what you cherished most without you even knowing what it was until you lost it. 

posted on April 26th, 2007, 6:01 pm

common cents is not so common name. Common and uncommon cents don't go to all the time. Condinleza Rice is a grate egezample of that.

Hey my life has bean no walk in the park by any masher either but you do the best with what you have.

posted on April 26th, 2007, 6:37 pm

Look, no reason for anyone here to get offended.

Maybe one of you if right; maybe the other.

I may have my own opinion as well, and I will defend it, but I'm not gonna take it personally if niether of you understand what I'm saying.

It's just not worth it.

posted on April 26th, 2007, 9:10 pm

I understand what you are saiying and I think you have a valied pont of vuwe that is share with meny uthers.

posted on April 26th, 2007, 10:41 pm

Ya, I respect everyone else I just try to get people to have an open mind about stuff, almost nothing in life is just black and white, there are just a lot of shades of gray but some people do see different shades of gray on different subjects. 

posted on April 27th, 2007, 2:53 am

I do have a opined mind just be cuss I think your infomation is rong dose not mean I have not consitered it.

Why I am so anti repulican sounding is be cuss thare are almost no true repuplicans left. Amsot all have corperit backers with by defaniion that is anti Conservative. Thay are crating what ragin was trying to stop the Repulican party is filed with contradictions.

posted on April 27th, 2007, 7:44 am

Lol, that is a closed mind, thinking that someone you don't even know is corrupt and evil because you think he is a republican?  How did you make that inference?  Actually I swing both Democrat and Republican when the need arises I just don't think its a good move to stick too one side about everything, just think about it, without Bush would we have attacked Afghanistan?  True Iraq is iffy but still, did you want those few million people too continue to die and get tortured by a mad man?  But most of the leading Democrats don't have spines, I'm not saying it without proof but in every case throughout American History if a Democrat president was in charge we would leave an area where we were fighting and just quit, thats what the Democrats want to do now in Iraq, true we shouldn't be there but we are, if you pull our troops out now you will make the whole region unstable, even more so than it already is and you say you give up against terrorism, it will be the same thing like Somalia but instead of losing 18 lives we have lost many more, more than I know off the top of my head.  So if we leave now we will make their sacrifice worth nothing.  So bet me I would vote Republican next election because I would not want a leader without a spine, because if you vote Democrat next election you are voting against our soldiers and their past sacrifices.  The Democratic party is all contradiction, that is what happened in the 2004 election because Kerry didn't have a standing on anything, he just said what he thought the majority would like which is what they all do, they just look at the statistic and go with the majority every single time, they also make programs for the minorities with the majorities money, they increase taxes to make up for their increased spending in these programs so the majority get the shaft while listening too half baked ideas and wishes from people who don't care about you, at least when a republican is in office you know something will get done, not just something that is done half way, that is in Iraq now, we aren't done by a long shot but we are making progress.  What have the democrats decided on the deadline to start sending troops out of Iraq?  That is so stupid it is disgusting, democrats know politics and economics while republicans know war and how too stand up for something.  If we stop acting like you we will have a chance to actually win the war"'s" we are in now.  And some republicans are corrupt, that is correct, but some democrats are corrupt as well and don't say otherwise, if you say no democrats are corrupt you are more naive then I took you for.  Just stop bad mouthing anything that you don't like, it is just so hypocritical, talking about stuff you know very little if anything about.  True I don't know everything about these subjects but I have taken a few classes in these areas but mostly in philosophy for gen ed classes so I know much about fallacies and what too look for when someone lies or just tries to rationalize something to make it fit in their beliefs.  Most people your age are Democratic because you are young, you know about school and a little work but when you have a family of your own and start finding out what the cool bands say isn't always right and what you want to hear and what you get are two totally different things you will probably change to something else or just free float like me.  I am only 24, I've been in college for 7 years, almost on my 8th and final year and I have been told by my friends and family I act like a 40 year old, I don't do what most college kids do, I don't party all the time, I take more classes in school instead of partying, I am currently taking 21 units while going to work part time to pay for petrol and other expenses down the road, I have a scholarship and have grants to pay for school, books, room and board.  One other thing, my information isn't wrong, I backup everything I say from wikipedia.com and other websites that were created to be information hubs, not propaganda shops.  The French Law thing is very hard to find though, because its based off of their legal systems which wikipedia doesn't really have...   Why do you hate republicans so much?  Give me a list of 1 reason, a reason that is true and makes sense, not something like "I hate Republicans because Democrats hate Republicans" or something like that.  O, and just to let you know if you think almost no good republicans are left you think over half of the nation is corrupt and evil...don't generalize, generalization is a fallacy because its like putting 20 random guys into a room and say all the guys are gay because you know 2 of them are gay.  Problem making reports, after a while you can write too much too quickly. But really though, please stop bad mouthing about other styles of living, some of these styles of living aren't even my own and I defend them because they are how some people live and you and I have no right too look down upon them.  I love this animation sketch, lol.

posted on April 27th, 2007, 4:15 pm

Going back to what I said in a different topic; you might want to brake those posts up into sections.

There's a reason paragraphs were invented.