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Originally Posted by Infinite_Loser
^So I'm glad you seem to agree that "They can't help the way they feel" to be a rather absurd justification for any activity. See how easy it is to get along  |
no one's saying it's justification.
If a homosexual guy rapes a 40 year old man, we don't say "oh well he's gay, he can't help it." We say "He raped someone, throw the book at him." We don't worry about what his sexuality is, we worry about what his activity is.
By the same token, and what these NAMBLA jackasses fail to appreciate, we don't so much have an issue with the fact that some guy finds a teenager attractive, provided he doesn't act on it. Hell, a whole lot of people find teenage celebrities attractive, but that doesn't mean they go find 'em and rape 'em. We have a problem with NAMBLA people and people like them finding someone who is too young to make the choice, and then having sex with them. That's called statutory rape, and it's flat out wrong, immoral, and cruel to the child he does it to.
I don't care what his feelings are, but when he acts on those feelings in a way that harms someone else, we have a problem.