Aww. Thanks Supes, I forgive you... *ominous voice* THIS TIME... :ominous:
I'm fully aware that that smiley doesn't exist. Also, you don't HAVE to reply to my ramblings, you know. I didn't actually expect anyone to even read my posts there, let alone reply to them.
I was just using that space to use up steam and just write.
Now the only problem that remains is to make a riposte. Hee, I made a play on words.
*erhem*...
Ok, so I shouldn't have said anything about lachie's sense of humor.
Anyway, I can't remember what I wanted to comment on before, and since I wasn't thinking too clearly, it's a pretty safe bet that it was incoherent or just something that most stoned fish could come up with on a regular basis.
Since Supes seems to actually expect
something from me... I just saw something on Ancient Greece and their pederastic ways. That kind of ties in with this, doesn't it? I do think that Civ made some very good points about how our culture is still integrated with paedophilia, but we're blind to it because we've grown up with it. As to Supes' "Is it still paedophilia if it's integrated into the culture, etc?" question, my answer would be, "Yes." As has already been pointed out, paedophilia is not inherently BAD or inherently GOOD. Here is the definition:
The act or fantasy on the part of an adult of engaging in sexual activity with a child or children.
Even if it's integrated into the culture, accepted by that culture, and encouraged by that culture (as in Ancient Greece), the phenomenon still occurs, and since we've named the phenomenon "paedophilia" and it's various spellings, paedophilia would still exist. I think your question was asking if it would still have the negative connotations that it currently does? Sorry if I'm wrong, Supes. I definitely think this thread would have a completely different tone if it was a culturally accepted and encouraged phenomenon. It would be radical thinking to think bad of it if it were a cultural norm. As with so many things, society greatly influences how people think by creating the atmosphere in which they grow up and learn the ways of the world. That may be completely astray from what you were trying to ask, but at least it's more than last time, eh?
On a side note, I like smilies.
<-That one's my favorite.
I'm comfortably numb.
Jimbo: We had to kill them to keep them from going extinct.