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RE: Watching Child Porn Is Okay Says Ethereum Owner Vitalik - When Anarchy Goes Too Far
There has never been a day in humanity where child abuse was ever ok, what is this boy shooting up? Whatever the argument, there are certain lines you don't cross.
He's young, he's influential.............he's responsible for what he says. Time to donate millions of ether to funds that support children who have been abused.
I dunno man, you read the bible and historical stuff and children have been pretty badly treated for a lot of human history. Various kings and princes married children in order to cement their power.
One of the so-called 10 Commandments should be, though shalt not indulge in sexual congress with children, however it is not, because they did not consider it sinful. In the Quran Mohammed's bride Ayisha was 9, although he didn't have relations with her till she was 12; which apparently made it OK.
However today we have got past all of that, so it's very sad to hear Vitalik support @falkvinge's outdated views. What troubles me, is that so many people might agree with these two because of their societal positions :-(
Cg
I know what you mean. I'm not saying people didn't participate in the action, but I highly doubt that the general masses really took part. I mean in a lot of these books, they talk about beheading and some other really dark shit, but it didn't mean that everyone did it. People in positions of power and influence are more often than not, predators.
I think if some adult in a village back in the religiously old days, suddenly started something with I child, doubt the rest of the village was just like "oh it's alright". I would really really really like to think that as an adult human being, you inherently know that children are off limits.
I still say, he should be sacked / arrested and should donate all of his ether to childrens' charities. To all the hackers out there, you now have a target, go get em!!!!
Very true, most people would have found such acts abhorrent. However I'm a big believer in the maxim that states 'you can't police people without their consent'.
This was shown on a smaller level when Europe brought in the smoking ban. In England, the ban past off without so much as a hitch, simply because most people agreed that you shouldn't be able to smoke inside public spaces.
However if you look at Spain, it was as if the ban didn't exist. I remember going there shortly after the ban. People were still smoking inside of restaurants and bars, those establishments had tiny little signs in the window saying words to the effect of; 'there's a ban, however we like smoking here, if you don't, then don't come in.'
So we see how laws are upheld by the will of the people. Whilst I'm sure that in medieval times people still loved their kids. Certain practices where just accepted to be the norm. For instance a girl was not considered a child once it was physically possible for her to have a baby, so it would not have even been considered abuse, regardless of her age.
I watched a documentary once about a country (whose name I forget), whereby women were grabbed off the street and forced to marry. If that society was as outraged about it as the documentary makers were, something would have been done, laws passed etc.
However the law was that if you were grabbed and that person married you, it was not seen as kidnapping and/or rape, because they had done 'the right thing' by marrying you.
I think what Vitalik is doing here, is trying to take a libertarian view to its ultimate extreme and say if drugs are legalised, then so should everything be. However that misses the point that most people agree that the criminalisation of drug addicts, or people who just want to get a bit high, is silly. Whereas we now agree that children deserve the protection of adults.
As far as being sacked and/or arrested, I'm not so sure, I don't think you should arrest someone for saying what he said. Because then we go into a very murky realm of imprisoning people for holding certain views.
I do think a donation would be nice, however I feel that any donation he made would be to lift heat from him, and not because he has genuinely had a change of heart on the matter.
Bloody hell! Long answer, sorry! :-D
Cg
Long but good. It's another topic where we could go on and on =)