Um no, someone's parents would let their baby get alcohol poisoning, and they'd be the ones arrested for the poisoning, just like any other kind - whether its allergies, or feeding a newborn honey knowing they can't have it, etc. It's neglect or abuse.

A drinking age existing doesn't prevent that - people would let their babies have a drink only in hiding, whether there's adrinking age or not, and they'd get in trouble for the poisoning, drinking age or not.

The drinking age causes more problems than it helps - I think a society of normalizing drinking is better - people could drink with their parents, but it would be no different from any other activity. There would be less binge drinking or "drinking because its enticing," no fear of reporting alcohol-related injuries "because I'll go to jail for drinking," no more drinking in dangerous places "because I'm not allowed to drink and can't drink in supervised places"...

Eh, I wouldn't be able to help the bond. That's how humans work. So spare people.

This isn't an argument about whether socialism works (although its certainly been proven "don't cut stuff down for the insanely wealthy and let them foot the bill more" works - all we need is someone courageous enough to do that, and for people to stop saying that its a punishment to them - people's wellbeing and increasing the quality of life is more important than 'well, its tons of money that they don't need and didn't work proportionally for, but its like, unfair to them!' beliefs.)

Anyway, it's a lie that they're not in threat, and it's not about strong wording. Liberal viewed facebook pages, comments, whatever, have been threatened or simply taken down too. You honestly had no idea and thought you could get away with saying that whether it was true or not, didn't you?

This isn't really fundamental censorship or a violation of first amendment. It only applies to when someone (the government, namely) ultimately stops you from expressing yourself or in this case having a site anywhere. A newspaper can turn down your story and facebook can take your stuff off of their own website without violating freedom of speech or being guilty of censorship.

Hope you read it all.. I swear it's only a one minute read.

FreeWill, I disagree with you on the very fundamentals on that argument. This probably won't change your mind or get you to think, because of self affirmation theory , that thing that drives some people to keep their integrity; gives them defensive biases to fight the idea that they were wrong in their views or beliefs, or that they've judged something unfairly, or were simply wrong about simple facts - it really kicks in when it comes to sexual morals.

self affirmation theory proposes that people are fundamentally motivated to maintain the perceived integrity of the self.

Morality - I am a good person. Adequacy - I am a competent person. Research shows that the defensive biases are weakened when other sources of integrity are given...then, people are more likely to accept information that they'd otherwise see as threatening, and change their beliefs, or even their behavior. I have no idea how that would help here though. Anyway, like fox says. Seeing yourself as who you really are, or saying that one of your beliefs is wrong isn't just a matter of information - its a matter of affirmation. That's the problem here.

But please just hear me out and read all of what I say. And don't let integrity get in the way. If that fails, then I'd probably be viewed as a pretty awful person after saying what I think on the topic of that scary word - rape.

The idea that rape is the worst kind of torture because its sexual (also a very sex-based argument - female rapists are never up for being killed) is just a societal and cultural one, and a very harmful one at that. At least when people who spout this stuff are around rape victims. Rape victims, whether they think like you or not, will probably be affected by your attitude that "omg, dude, the worst thing ever has happened to you, they deserve to be KILLED. I wouldn't be surprised if you were suicidal" - that is abuse in itself. If I were a rape victim, I know that this attitude around me would make me feel worse about it. It's just an idea conditioned into people, but one of the easiest to defy.

Sex in general is taboo. Sex is what makes an ok situtation unforgivable or immoral. It makes an immoral situation absolutely unforgivable.Too much sex makes you a self destroying slut, it's bad for the soul, and you're not "respecting yourself." Any other physical activity is fine, but when one adds in sex, its immoral. Sex should only be love, people say. I say sex is what you make it. Sex when it comes to the young is absolutely awful, and its rape and child abuse and deserving of death. When you add sex into an assault, or into a controlling or forcing, it's the ultimate torture, the ultimate violation of one's soul... somehow.

I know that you don't believe in all of the above moral statements after observing you, however, you participate in the spectrum. All of the sexual morals to me (rape is the only one on there I consider immoral), have weak arguments behind them that are generally put on a pedastool with heaps of emotion. The argument that "so much sex is disrespect to yourself and your soul" is obviously bull. The argument that somehow sexual experiences hurt children in the worst way is obviously bull. The argument that sexual rape is the worst kind of torture ever is obviously wrong to me, too. Somehow... these beliefs reside in many people, though.

I swear, I'm the queen of non conventional beliefs. If I can't justify it in my mind, I simply can't believe it. I'm not good at lying to myself. Sometimes I feel a bit lonely, I used to feel a bit depressed, but I know its just an illusion when I think that I'm the only one that thinks like this, or that its very rare to think these things. I've realized that now.

Not that I don't think it should affect a person at all (of course it should), just not 100x more than a non-sexual attack. I see rape for what it is - forcing oneself physically upon someone else, forcing them to do activities they don't want to do, taking control of them - like a blackmailing upperhand (or father?), a controlling boyfriend or girlfriend, but sexually.

Rape is not the worst sort of torture, but it can be if you infect rape victims with attitudes that aren't based off of anything.

I find it curious that you can have so much overkill of "empathy" (rage) for rape victims, but when it comes to psychological torture and harassment, when its in a school building, its just a "necessary lesson of life," even though time has proven time and time again that it's just a theory that it teaches - in practice, the only thing it ends up doing is hurting most of its victims.

Not to mention the fact that the word "school building" somehow trivializes crimes. Harassment? In school? We shouldn't enforce the stopping of that. It's just a lesson. Harassment outside? Call the police and shoot for a stay in jail, even.

Physical assault? Bad, but just a suspension. It happened in school. Physical assault outside? Call the police.

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Yes, because children are so much more valuable than adults, it's 10x worse.

Gimme a fucking break. You probably have no experience whatsoever in comparing child victims to adult victims. You're just one of the retards socially conditioned to view it that way. Nothing but a willful robot.

Also, it's further abuse to a child OR an adult to say the worst thing on Earth has happened to them, and that person should lose their life, or that person should suffer like, foreverz, worse than you. Even if they do not wish to support such views intellectually, you'll still fester an "omg, I feel like even worse dirt now, what if I never recover?!" attitude in them, which, hello, makes it worse.

No, you tell them that that wo/man violated their bodies and put them through heart stopping fear but that none of its their fault, and that they aren't worth less for it, and that they can pull through this experience.

Him or her, you mean. And no, I don't think they should be... especially not for the reason of "not having enough humanity while being in human form." The fuck? What a strange reason. Humanity level ratings?

I think they should be stopped, though.

And many people who say things about serial rapists being killed also say things about one time rapists being killed, which goes to show that they are the type that harm rape victims by trying to feed them attitudes of "oh my god, the worst thing ever happened to you, worse than death, when they VIOLATED YOUR BAWDIE! (UNLESS IT WAS A WOMAN, THOUGH. THAT'S NOT AS BAD. IF A WOMAN RAPES YOU, I MEAN.) You should be trying to kill yourself right now! We wouldnt blame you! but we'll make sure you dont! We also wouldnt blame you if you felt like shit for the rest of your life!"

Please, people like that, stay away from rape victims. I'll make it a crime for you to approach them.

All hail FreeWill. Let me serve you for life.

I do think I have the right to tell anyone I wish that their beliefs are wrong and that they are idiots for trying to fight back (if there are absolutely no arguments available for them to use to make them sound like anymore than an idiot), though. ;).

lol, "makes them stronger." What bullshit. It may make some people stronger, but so what? That wasn't the harasser's intention. Harassment is harassment and it should be illegal. That's not to say that people should be thrown in prison automatically, but it should be stoppable under law.

As for cyber bullying, that usually refers to people you know IRL going on the internet for a larger audience. It's no different from ground bullying because it's just a continuation of it, except, OH NO, more people can join in. In these cases, blocking someone does nothing because you face their harassment in school/street too.

If you mean random strangers, that's usually trolling, and getting arrested for trolling sounds hilarious.