2123: The Jenny Awards

[critical_temp]

Well I voted wrong. I meant to vote yes. I think the simple question that isn't being asked of Keith is...why? Why should it be illegal? Not why is it wrong or why do you think it's gross..but why should it be on the books and enforced as a law? Whether something is wrong vs whether it's illegal are two very different thresholds. Cigarettes are legal. Those suck. But we've allowed it to be an adult right to purchase and use them. But of course comparing it to something else makes us "insane" and "mental patients"

We need Jesse or Christian or another reasonable guest to challenge Keith on this. I think he feels like people are arguing whether it's "acceptable" vs it being something for the police and judges to give a fuck about.

[Sparrow]

Originally Posted by critical_temp

whether it's "acceptable" vs it being something for the police and judges to give a fuck about.

this^

[Keith]

Originally Posted by critical_temp

I think the simple question that isn't being asked of Keith is...why? Why should incest be illegal?

Because I'm a prude.

[Sparrow]

oh, c'mon. of course it's fucked up. but, there's not an epidemic happening or a lobby and so far as this kind of thing we as a people are doing a fine enough job discouraging the practice without going on a crusade for legislation. i believe considering our current want to explode every issue into a media frenzy, things gross like this sell air time. why give it attention? why get our pitchforks out for this? it will give crazies license to scrutinize what makes for ok and not ok parental physical contact and grown up consensual sex. the 'for the kids' crusaders with take to the streets. i'll give you immoral and portent of deeper issues that go along with choosing inappropriate sexual partners, but a crime? nah.

[Keith]

If incest is not outlawed in every state in this country, I, as a parent, might get confused about what's legal and illegal when it comes to the relationship with my children?

"I can't fuck my adult child? Jesus, what CAN I do?!"

Coo-coo.

Look, you wanna fuck your dad, just fuck him I guess. What am I gonna tell ya. But don't expect me to have a real debate with you about incest, especially when you compare it to backwards countries that don't allow couples to hold hands.

[New here]

Originally Posted by Sparrow

the 'for the kids' crusaders

This exists less than the war on Christmas.

In AZ for example there are only 4 full time investigators of child porn. "It's extremely stressful for these investigators, seeing videos of kids being raped with the knowledge they are unable to get to a fraction of what's really out there."

More preschoolers are shot dead in a year than cops. 1 in 3 children in America live in poverty (the worst of any age group).

"Won't someone think of the children" is a fun sarcastic way to mock the most vulnerable, often even said by the same type of person who sees "man spreading" and white people "stealing" sexual attraction to big butts from black people as the most severely pressing societal issues.

You don't care that someone can warp their child's mind and then later fuck them. That's the extent of it, okay you don't care.