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[Scoops Novel]

When and how? Also, does this sum up the average feeling toward the economics system in the general public? How much do you think people will tolerate? http://www.smbc-comics.com/?db=comics&id=2589#comic

[Sirus]

I don't know about opsec, but LEO stands for Law Enforcement Organization

Huh. I was thinking it stood for Low Earth Orbit.

[Devling]

Lethal Earth Orbitors.

Lazy Eating Oranges.

Long Ear Ostrich.

[Dutchling]

Lutchling Etchling Otchling.

Obviously.

[Frumple]

All these things.

Annoyingly, neither law enforcement organization or officer is in that list. It took google to figure out that was what was being talked about. Wikipedia hath failed me, once more.

[MrSparky]

All these things.

Annoyingly, neither law enforcement organization or officer is in that list. It took google to figure out that was what was being talked about. Wikipedia hath failed me, once more.

First section, tenth entry from top/fifth entry from bottom.

[Frumple]

Spot check failed, apparently. Eh.

[Reelya]

Just sighed as this. As far as i can work out, a 18 year old lesbian was dating a 15 year old (at the same school, so a senior and a junior), the parents of the younger girl objected, then the parents of the other girl realized they could get her expelled from highschool and charged under child sex offenses / statutory rape. Now she's having the book thrown at her by the justice system as a pedophile though she hasn't even graduated yet, and the couple are only two grades apart. Total insanity.

[MonkeyHead]

Just sighed as this. As far as i can work out, a 18 year old lesbian was dating a 15 year old (at the same school, so a senior and a junior), the parents of the younger girl objected, then the parents of the other girl realized they could get her expelled from highschool and charged under child sex offenses / statutory rape. Now she's having the book thrown at her by the justice system as a pedophile though she hasn't even graduated yet, and the couple are only two grades apart. Total insanity.

Hey, the same thing happens all the time in hetero relationships... vengeful parents overprotecting thier child.

[Scelly9]

Just sighed as this. As far as i can work out, a 18 year old lesbian was dating a 15 year old (at the same school, so a senior and a junior), the parents of the younger girl objected, then the parents of the other girl realized they could get her expelled from highschool and charged under child sex offenses / statutory rape. Now she's having the book thrown at her by the justice system as a pedophile though she hasn't even graduated yet, and the couple are only two grades apart. Total insanity.

Hey, the same thing happens all the time in hetero relationships... vengeful parents overprotecting thier child.

Yeah... It happens a LOT.

[kaijyuu]

AoC laws are pretty crazy.

[Vector]

This may surprise you, but I'm very strongly for them as a general principle (though perhaps they might need to be fine-tuned a bit).  I realize that not everyone is like me, but I've had some very bad experiences dating across a four-year age gap--and I was fresh out of high school, a fully consenting adult!

[Frumple]

Fine tuned way more than a "bit", really. The laws related to statutory are pretty shitty in a lot of places in the states. Sometimes they work as intended, other times they completely ruin someone's life for no damn good reason. Usually see at least a couple cases a year where you've got what's by all indications a fairly stable and healthy relationship, and one of the participants ends up thrown in jail/on the sex offender's list for the rest of their life because they're a few years off from their partner and someone's parent threw a hissyfit.

And especially in the case of ending up on that list, in the states... stick a goddamn fork in you, you're done, that's it, you're screwed more or less permanently. Consenting, healthy relationship? No one being hurt? Everyone whose actual business it is, content? Doesn't bloody matter. End up on that list and you can kiss job prospects and a social life more or less goodbye. Doesn't matter why. Doesn't matter how long ago it was. Y'just flat buggered. A non-crime that bloody close to completely ruins you. S'damned sick, is what it is

Conceptually, though... still pretty ham handed, really. Romeo and Juliet laws help a little in that regard, but... sometimes not enough. Think th'board's actually prodded this line of discussion a couple times, hrm.

[alway]

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/19/18322645-palestinian-kids-swept-up-in-wave-of-israeli-arrests?lite

[kaijyuu]

This may surprise you, but I'm very strongly for them as a general principle (though perhaps they might need to be fine-tuned a bit).  I realize that not everyone is like me, but I've had some very bad experiences dating across a four-year age gap--and I was fresh out of high school, a fully consenting adult!

I feel that there are lots of people under the age limit who have the ability and maturity to give consent, and plenty above the age limit who don't. This sort of thing isn't determined by the amount of revolutions you've had around the sun. I only accept hard age limits because it's impossible to test for this sort of thing, so it's the least impractical and ineffective solution out of a lot of ineffectual solutions.