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Real children don't go hoppity-skip unless they are on drugs
I want to make clear that I am not scared about my journal being reported/suspended/whatever. Above everything else, I'm way to uninteresting to warrant that.
So it's not fear or anger at the abuse team that makes me rant, it's the justification in this news post
What I am is pissed off at being told that suspension/deletion of accounts is necessary for the sake of the children. And being told that I'm supposed to understand that special care needs to be taken to protect the children.
You know what? I do not particularly like children. That's not to say I hate all children, and I get along well enough with individual children, but on a whole? Children are really not important to me and I'm happy when they are somewhere that's not near me.
Telling me something is done to protect the children? Results in a big "Why should I care?"*
I don't think because something is done for the children it's automatically good and using it in that patronizing "Come now, we all want only the best for children, don't we?" way only raises my hackles.
And really, asking me to please understand that some sacrifices have to be made for the illusion that children are now safer because paedophiles can not find each other on LJ any more? Excuse me while I laugh myself silly.
Do not even get me started on the protection of innocence. I subscribe to the Terry Pratchett school of thoughts: "It's nice to hear the voices of little children at play, provided you take care to be far enough away not to hear what they are actually saying".
Children are human and as such just as likely to be little arseholes as everyone else.
* (Despite that I'm also an oldest sister, so looking out for children when there are physical dangers like knives and fire around is second nature to me. It's just the ... well, parenting stuff like getting them to understand that the world is a cruel place and strangers are not to be trusted I leave for the parents. Just so those of you who were just planning on keeping your kids far, far away from me, can relax ;)
Also, incest isn't even illegal, is it? It's the child molestation part of those cases that is. *grumblemumblebitch*
EDIT: Oh ok, apparently it is in some places(ยง 173 StGB in Germany) it's just nearly never applied because there are not that many cases and no one *cares*)
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And maybe its a big sister thing, but really, don't see why everyone in the world should be bullied into 'protecting the children'. Too many years of sibling sitting have left their mark ;)
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While I like some individual children (my nephews) I really don't much care for them in general and took very great care never to have any of my own. I refuse to take any more than the most basic responsibility (I'll intervene to protect them from being physically abused, drowned or run over, but that's about my limit) for anyone else's.
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Incest marriages are a different thing (and the laws differ from country to county and even state to state in the US. It's a fun game to guess :)
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I don't see why there would be a differentiation between incest being legal as long as you're not married. I would think if the government is going to meddle in the relationship between two consenting adults it would do so across the board.
My thought on the topic? On one hand, as far as I'm concerned, it doesn't matter who a person has sex with as long as it's another consenting adult and the government shouldn't go any further than that. On the other hand, it might effect me if people start bumping uglies with their relatives and have a slew of unhealthy children which the state has to care for. That's one of those things I wouldn't want my tax money to go towards.
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I think that's the main reason for forbidding marriage. Have all the sex you want but don't produce children. And since the only reason to marry is to have children and obviously no one ever had children out of marriage, marrying is forbidden. Or... something completely logical like that.
The main reason there is talk about removing that particular law is that anything that doesn't happen between consenting adults is covered under different laws and recently some guy who was forstered away when he was 2 met his biological sister and had four kids with her (sadly I have no idea how anyone found out they were related or who actually notified the police). This made the big news - it even got to the BBC - and for some reason neither of the two wants to spend two years in jail.
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