Thursday, June 17, 2010

Miley Cyrus Upskirt Controversy w/ Perez Hilton

Yes, there is a big difference between being 17 years, 364 days old, and being 18 years old. They ask in the video "How did he (Perez Hilton) not think about that (posting the photo of Miley Cyrus) before he did it?". Maybe because there is not much difference between 17-year-olds and 18-year-olds. Also, a 17-year-old is not a "child", though they are still legally a "minor", but that's only according to the State's "law", which has no connection to objective reality.

Ask yourself why, if such "laws" are not completely arbitrary, that when you turn 18 you can buy and sell property, enter into binding contracts, pose nude and star in porn "films" (and possibly catch a terrible disease while doing so), gamble away your entire savings account, serve in the military and be sent to foreign lands to get your limbs blown off, but you can't go down to the corner store and legally buy beer?

Oh, and even though you're just 17, watch out before you have any kind of consensual sex (even oral) with another teenager, because even though you too are a "child", you could still be convicted of statutory "rape".

Anyway, I couldn't care less about either Hilton or Cyrus.

1 comment:

  1. I know suggesting solutions wouldn't mean you get to use so many sarcastic quote marks, but how about:

    - lowering the age of conset (which is below 18 in most places, anyway)
    - lowering the legal "child porn" age
    - not prosecuting someone for photographing something that was seen in public
    - lowering the drinking age
    - implementing age-proximity exceptions (e.g. age of consent 15, though a 14 year old can have sex with someone within X years of age)

    I don't understand why those are impossible hurdles and cause for dismantling "the state."

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