tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8441439.post294855772180690940..comments2023-11-19T17:31:49.939+00:00Comments on Bristling Badger: masturbation is a sexcrimeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8441439.post-33242527351591897582007-11-23T17:29:00.000+00:002007-11-23T17:29:00.000+00:00Reason, absolutely the law should be changed. but ...Reason, absolutely the law should be changed. but the thing is, if a law is immoral, why should it be obeyed?<BR/><BR/>Legality and morality are not the same thing.<BR/><BR/>Around the world, every set of statutes permits things that are immoral and prohibits things that are moral.<BR/><BR/>Legislation is made by the wealthy and powerful to protect their own interests. Thanks to outside pressure, their interests are forced to respond a little to social needs.<BR/><BR/>But even with the more vibrant and responsive democracy in place, the legislation will always chronologically follow the morality. It will always lag behind. How are we to highlight a case if nobody speaks up, if there are no injustices brought to light?<BR/><BR/>Are you seriously contending that nobody should have had gay sex before 1967?<BR/><BR/>That nobody should be using cannabis or other drugs, even when they're doing no harm to anyone, not even themselves?<BR/><BR/>that you oppose the actions of suffragettes, the American Civil Rights movement, the numerous anti-colonial liberation movements of the 20th century?<BR/><BR/>That you support the legal right of people to hold an arms fair in central London and equally support the incarceration of those who block the access roads in protest?<BR/><BR/>that you support the entirely legal rounding up of Jews and mass execution of Jews, communists, disabled people and others by the Nazis and equally supporting the entirely legal execution of anti-Nazi resistance fighters?<BR/><BR/>To have a blanket support of the law is to have faith in the infallibly moral disposition of those who make laws. It's a faith that reality mocks.merrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10959849087751101034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8441439.post-32600711462846215972007-11-20T09:45:00.000+00:002007-11-20T09:45:00.000+00:00Isn't the real point that the law should be change...Isn't the real point that the law should be changed.<BR/><BR/>Me I'm old fashioned, I believe in the rule of the law. I also believe in a vibrant and responsive democracy to define the law.reasonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10958786975015285323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8441439.post-58090285688213969652007-11-18T15:56:00.000+00:002007-11-18T15:56:00.000+00:00Right on the money. A ridiculous state of affairs....Right on the money. A ridiculous state of affairs.Trooper Thompsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01505221473081871071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8441439.post-87057151493097264722007-11-17T13:20:00.000+00:002007-11-17T13:20:00.000+00:00This appears to have been the result of a technica...This appears to have been the result of a technicality. The guy pleaded guilty, so the sherriff had to follow certain guidelines. He had to find him guilty of the charges, and becasue of the sexual content, he had to place him on the sex offenders register.<BR/><BR/>Your comments about the defending solicitor are even more pertinant, though, unless the guy truly is some kind of masochist, and refused despite the heartfelt appeals of his solicitor, to plead not guilty.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07477727620596783913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8441439.post-1722718910736568472007-11-16T16:36:00.000+00:002007-11-16T16:36:00.000+00:00Snap!This story is weird on so many levels. One of...<A HREF="http://numero57.net/?p=200" REL="nofollow">Snap!</A><BR/><BR/>This story is weird on so many levels. One of my main questions is exactly what use is the sex-offenders register if you can get put on it for having a wank in your own room with the door locked?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com