You ask: "but because we can do something, should we? i mean, should a pedophile move to nevernever land just because the laws there are [currently] more lax?"
From the perspective of the pedophile, depending upon the pedophile purposes and circumstances and nature of the particular pedophile cognitive processing (the question invites many comparisons) I would say yes, if the pedophile wants to, if it would be in the best interests of the particular pedophile. Now if the pedophile moves and pedophiles and gets caught, how much do we fault the fact that the laws were more lax, inviting the pedophile there in the first place?
Further comparisons can be made, for instance, with varying tax laws for business, labor laws, regulations and costs, the old let's move offshore because we can make more money conundrum. I choose to live on or near the ocean for various reasons, always have, it's better for me and my beloved activities than living inland or on a mountain, although it costs more to live where I choose to live, for me it's worth it.
I suppose another comparative existential exercise, rather than moralistic or metaphysical, would be to apply various rules and conditions to the current illegal immigration debate. Ho-ho!
You ask: "we don't take care of the shit we got, so we should say 'oh well, there are other planets to pillage.'?"
I am no philosopher, academic, moralist or theologian, blah-blah-blah, and I'm definitely not as smart as some say I am, I'm just a fucking old sailor and surfer and shit, but the answer to this one is simple, FUCK NO! We should clean up our act and start taking care of our shit. Do you think we (in the U.S. at least and several other industrialized nations) are doing better now at taking of our shit than we were let's say a hundred, or a hundred and fifty years ago? What do you think of the U.N.'s Agenda 21? What about the number of armed conflicts worldwide, how has that changed in let's say, the last twenty years?
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Re: I am old
Date: 2011-02-12 05:06 pm (UTC)From the perspective of the pedophile, depending upon the pedophile purposes and circumstances and nature of the particular pedophile cognitive processing (the question invites many comparisons) I would say yes, if the pedophile wants to, if it would be in the best interests of the particular pedophile. Now if the pedophile moves and pedophiles and gets caught, how much do we fault the fact that the laws were more lax, inviting the pedophile there in the first place?
Further comparisons can be made, for instance, with varying tax laws for business, labor laws, regulations and costs, the old let's move offshore because we can make more money conundrum. I choose to live on or near the ocean for various reasons, always have, it's better for me and my beloved activities than living inland or on a mountain, although it costs more to live where I choose to live, for me it's worth it.
I suppose another comparative existential exercise, rather than moralistic or metaphysical, would be to apply various rules and conditions to the current illegal immigration debate. Ho-ho!
You ask: "we don't take care of the shit we got, so we should say 'oh well, there are other planets to pillage.'?"
I am no philosopher, academic, moralist or theologian, blah-blah-blah, and I'm definitely not as smart as some say I am, I'm just a fucking old sailor and surfer and shit, but the answer to this one is simple, FUCK NO! We should clean up our act and start taking care of our shit. Do you think we (in the U.S. at least and several other industrialized nations) are doing better now at taking of our shit than we were let's say a hundred, or a hundred and fifty years ago? What do you think of the U.N.'s Agenda 21? What about the number of armed conflicts worldwide, how has that changed in let's say, the last twenty years?