Text 33735, 54 rader
Skriven 2009-06-25 08:32:41 av Roy Witt (1:397/22)
  Kommentar till text 33716 av Bob Ackley (1:300/3)
Ärende: Saberi vs Blom
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24 Jun 09 06:06, Bob Ackley wrote to Roy Witt:

 BA> Replying to a message of Roy Witt to Bob Ackley:

 JS>>>>     Yup, a young women of about 14. Them is children here Michiel.

 BA>>> US law says they are children.  Among other things US law also says
 BA>>> that the tomato is a vegetable and that cocaine is a narcotic.  At
 BA>>> one point some legislator wanted to make a law that said that pi
 BA>>> was equal to 3.0, and he may well have succeeded - however briefly.
 BA>>> The fact that the law says something don't make it so, Jeff.

 RW>> It does if the society she lives in wants it to be that way. Even
 RW>> though the 14yo isn't quite a child, she's still an adolescent,
 RW>> which means she is not yet an adult. Children and adolescents are
 RW>> protected in the US from sexual molesters, by law.

 BA> Why not protect *all* people from molesters, not just children?

They do...in the adult world, it's no longer considered molestation, but
rape.

 BA> In any case in the US the law is at variance with biological fact.

The law is on que with what society wants it to be, that's all it really
needs to be.

 BA> And as I noted above, that fact that the law says something does not
 BA> make it a fact.

Right, but it does make a violation of that law a criminal act and
punishable by the society that put it into play.

 BA> That idiot that wanted a law to make pi equal to 3.0
 BA> being one salient example; along with the FDA decreeing that the
 BA> tomato is a vegetable (it is a fruit) and the DEA decreeing that
 BA> cocaine is a narcotic (cocaine is a massive upper, narcotics are
 BA> downers).

Cocaine is an alkaloid, which means it's in the same class of drugs as
nicotine, quinine and morphine. As for the tomato, it's in the Solanum or
Nightshade family, as is the potato and eggplant, making it closer to a
vegetable than a fruit. You may be confused by the use of the word 'fruit'
in reference to; "the tomato plant bears fruit", which means that it bears
an edible 'something' for lack of a better word...


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