And our neural plasticity drops way the fuck off. It's a learning mechanism. Inhibiting experience till after will basically mentally scar. Makes sense that it's regarded as fine and normal in the US due to religiously define norms, but it's just politics and ignorance driving it, which self-perpetuates, despite the perpetuators knowing what they did at that age to become the people who they think should be able to define such things. Basically, deluded hypocrites are arbitrarily defining "healthy" and, nowadays, throwing it around like religious dogma but without the explicit religion to appeal to. "Healthy" is the new good. "Unheathly" is the new sin.
Till after Nam the voting age was above the draft age. They found embarrassing that some vets couldn't vote. Strangely, females got it the same but as a "human right"...
The current ages in the US, otherwise, are due to very recent creeping. They're being increased for no psychological or biological reason at all, and other countries are slavishly falling in line. There's a reason idiots who don't know what a pedophile actually is are conflating these things. Past lines in all countries were verifiably arbitrary, just arising for ulterior reasons then gaining a life of their own among the sanctomoniously ignorant.
If you regard this as necessarily arbitrary, why would claim there needs to be a line? If you can give a reason; then, there should be non-arbitrary basis, which should either define a line directly or define more specific criteria that'd replace the line.
How did THIS get modded troll exactly? It's less incendiary than my last libtardbait that predictably got twice modded troll too. Neither are what "troll" means since both have a point. THIS ironically one shouldn't even qualify as flamebait.
The Federation never leaves "its" people alone, and it gets to decide who they are at the business end of charged phasers arrays and loaded torpedo tubes. Kidnapping, robbing, and generally oppressing independent human civilizations, some that even preexist the Federation, was fine. Exploiting the "wrong" or conspiring with the "right" aliens was fine. Arresting criminals of the violent corrupt regimes despite their criminality being primarily predicated on NOT being Federation citizens was fine. The Prime Directive is merely a sanctomonious political tool. Need I mention Section 31? (Politically mandated) technological dominance is precisely the problem.
Also, in regards to "lifetime", there's skewing. For one, your average male will consider a shit-ton fewer things sexual harassment/assault than your average female. For another, from "Accuracy of Adult Recollections of Childhood Victimization: Part 2. Childhood Sexual Abuse":
"Men with documented cases of sexual abuse do not report a higher incidence of these sexual experiences in childhood (42%) than do physically abused or neglected (48%) or control (45%) men. Men with documented cases of sexual abuse and those with documented cases of physical abuse or neglect both reported higher rates of having considering their experiences to be sexual abuse and of having sex against their will than did controls, but men with documented cases of sexual abuse did not differ from men with documented cases of physical abuse or neglect. It is interesting that less than one fifth (16%) of the men with documented cases of sexual abuse considered their early experiences to have been sexual abuse, compared with 64% of the sexually abused women (Table 3)."
There's a Google cache of it, BTW, as I can't seem to access the original directly now due to some redirect. That alone radically alters reporting, much less if the pattern continues into males' adult victimhood.
P.18 (Table 2.1) Previous 12 months
1.1% of females, or 1 270 000, were victims of "rape".
5.6% of females were victims of "other sexual violence".
P.19 (Table 2.2) Previous 12 months
1.1% of males, or 1 267 000, were "forced to penetrate".
5.3% of males were victims of "other sexual violence".
Note the second statistic doesn't include male victims who were penetrated (or, as usual, any prison rape) since the CDC used a "forced to penetrate" catagory to separate it from "rape" which they only defined as being penetrated. Definitions are on page 17.
Women rape too and, including, "forced to penetrate" statistics, at similar rates. They just get away with it thanks to special treatment. The feminazi religion is exactly the same kind of hegemonic bullshit we were just arguing against. Who the flying fuck doesn't know that violence against women by a man (even DEFENSIVE) is heavily frowned upon (but not the reverse)? You don't need to teach "men not to rape". We're not the deluded chauvinists here. We actually need to teach people that women AREN'T holy. Drop your evangelical FAITH-based propaganda, Preacher...
That quote is a thought terminating cliche, and your absurd misreading of your opposition is blatantly disingenuous. Sanctimony only counts as logic if you follow Vulcan religion.
Protip: If the Borg had used violence more appropriately (that is VERY fucking often, certainly against ANY intruders), instead of pseudo-enlightened arrogance similar to what you're pushing, they'd have won against anything this side of fluidic space short short of certain physical gods.
If by fun, you mean dumbed down for ignorant spastic retards. They DID change it. Now, it DOES suck. You're just one of those they're catering to and probably call yourself a gamer, no less. Gah, "geek chic" poseurs need to fucking die already. I swear I never here words like "lame" used for anything in game for anything but someone getting their n00b ass kicked.
It varies by state, but 16 was the mode age of consent in the US. IIRC, SCOTUS ruled all the gender based AoCs unconstitutional, so I don't know if that stuck or whether they went with the high or low age (mostly 16 male vs 17 female). You can even marry at 16 with parental consent in my state. Not sure what that means for photographically documenting the honeymoon. The child porn issue was always nuts in the US. It's not about protecting anyone. It's just about killing the icky with scorched earth policy.
First, you can't ostracize yourself. That's victim-blaming. Second, you just handwaved the sheer bigotted oppressiveness of today's petty politics, validated it circularly, then denied it. This pre-invalidates any dissent, while pretending neutrality. Good, Sheeple. Your herd will be apathetic until directed otherwise.
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And our neural plasticity drops way the fuck off. It's a learning mechanism. Inhibiting experience till after will basically mentally scar. Makes sense that it's regarded as fine and normal in the US due to religiously define norms, but it's just politics and ignorance driving it, which self-perpetuates, despite the perpetuators knowing what they did at that age to become the people who they think should be able to define such things. Basically, deluded hypocrites are arbitrarily defining "healthy" and, nowadays, throwing it around like religious dogma but without the explicit religion to appeal to. "Healthy" is the new good. "Unheathly" is the new sin.
Till after Nam the voting age was above the draft age. They found embarrassing that some vets couldn't vote. Strangely, females got it the same but as a "human right"... The current ages in the US, otherwise, are due to very recent creeping. They're being increased for no psychological or biological reason at all, and other countries are slavishly falling in line. There's a reason idiots who don't know what a pedophile actually is are conflating these things. Past lines in all countries were verifiably arbitrary, just arising for ulterior reasons then gaining a life of their own among the sanctomoniously ignorant. If you regard this as necessarily arbitrary, why would claim there needs to be a line? If you can give a reason; then, there should be non-arbitrary basis, which should either define a line directly or define more specific criteria that'd replace the line.
How did THIS get modded troll exactly? It's less incendiary than my last libtardbait that predictably got twice modded troll too. Neither are what "troll" means since both have a point. THIS ironically one shouldn't even qualify as flamebait.
That would require having balls. Such're just increasingly redundant legal fictions over there...
I wouldn't want to touch anything down there barehanded either.
The Federation never leaves "its" people alone, and it gets to decide who they are at the business end of charged phasers arrays and loaded torpedo tubes. Kidnapping, robbing, and generally oppressing independent human civilizations, some that even preexist the Federation, was fine. Exploiting the "wrong" or conspiring with the "right" aliens was fine. Arresting criminals of the violent corrupt regimes despite their criminality being primarily predicated on NOT being Federation citizens was fine. The Prime Directive is merely a sanctomonious political tool. Need I mention Section 31? (Politically mandated) technological dominance is precisely the problem.
Also, in regards to "lifetime", there's skewing. For one, your average male will consider a shit-ton fewer things sexual harassment/assault than your average female. For another, from "Accuracy of Adult Recollections of Childhood Victimization: Part 2. Childhood Sexual Abuse":
"Men with documented cases of sexual abuse do not report a higher incidence of these sexual experiences in childhood (42%) than do physically abused or neglected (48%) or control (45%) men. Men with documented cases of sexual abuse and those with documented cases of physical abuse or neglect both reported higher rates of having considering their experiences to be sexual abuse and of having sex against their will than did controls, but men with documented cases of sexual abuse did not differ from men with documented cases of physical abuse or neglect. It is interesting that less than one fifth (16%) of the men with documented cases of sexual abuse considered their early experiences to have been sexual abuse, compared with 64% of the sexually abused women (Table 3)."
There's a Google cache of it, BTW, as I can't seem to access the original directly now due to some redirect. That alone radically alters reporting, much less if the pattern continues into males' adult victimhood.
http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/nisvs_report2010-a.pdf
P.18 (Table 2.1) Previous 12 months
1.1% of females, or 1 270 000, were victims of "rape".
5.6% of females were victims of "other sexual violence".
P.19 (Table 2.2) Previous 12 months
1.1% of males, or 1 267 000, were "forced to penetrate".
5.3% of males were victims of "other sexual violence".
Note the second statistic doesn't include male victims who were penetrated (or, as usual, any prison rape) since the CDC used a "forced to penetrate" catagory to separate it from "rape" which they only defined as being penetrated. Definitions are on page 17.
Uh, you're holding the malignancy of Catholicism up as a example of ANTI-violence?! Learn2history...
Women rape too and, including, "forced to penetrate" statistics, at similar rates. They just get away with it thanks to special treatment. The feminazi religion is exactly the same kind of hegemonic bullshit we were just arguing against. Who the flying fuck doesn't know that violence against women by a man (even DEFENSIVE) is heavily frowned upon (but not the reverse)? You don't need to teach "men not to rape". We're not the deluded chauvinists here. We actually need to teach people that women AREN'T holy. Drop your evangelical FAITH-based propaganda, Preacher...
That quote is a thought terminating cliche, and your absurd misreading of your opposition is blatantly disingenuous. Sanctimony only counts as logic if you follow Vulcan religion. Protip: If the Borg had used violence more appropriately (that is VERY fucking often, certainly against ANY intruders), instead of pseudo-enlightened arrogance similar to what you're pushing, they'd have won against anything this side of fluidic space short short of certain physical gods.
Would not bang, duh.
Welcome to Generation Y. Heroes in their own minds.
If by fun, you mean dumbed down for ignorant spastic retards. They DID change it. Now, it DOES suck. You're just one of those they're catering to and probably call yourself a gamer, no less. Gah, "geek chic" poseurs need to fucking die already. I swear I never here words like "lame" used for anything in game for anything but someone getting their n00b ass kicked.
Most people can't and never could.
It varies by state, but 16 was the mode age of consent in the US. IIRC, SCOTUS ruled all the gender based AoCs unconstitutional, so I don't know if that stuck or whether they went with the high or low age (mostly 16 male vs 17 female). You can even marry at 16 with parental consent in my state. Not sure what that means for photographically documenting the honeymoon. The child porn issue was always nuts in the US. It's not about protecting anyone. It's just about killing the icky with scorched earth policy.
First, you can't ostracize yourself. That's victim-blaming.
Second, you just handwaved the sheer bigotted oppressiveness of today's petty politics, validated it circularly, then denied it.
This pre-invalidates any dissent, while pretending neutrality. Good, Sheeple. Your herd will be apathetic until directed otherwise.