Jokodo
Veteran Member
Put another way, and to stress this again, this is independent of the Moore case though it was triggered by the kind of arguments some people are bringing up here: Banning all sex between, say, a 17-year-old and a 23-year-old on the (not unreasonable) assumption that the rate of predatory relationships might be heightened relative to ones between a 23-year-old and a 20-year-old is not unlike banning all driving on certain holidays or certain times of the week where it's customary to drink alcohol on the (equally reasonable) assumption that the rate of drunk drivers will be heightened. If we want to get rid of predators and drunk drivers, we need to check for predatory behaviour and drunk driving, not blanket ban something that might be loosely correlated with either.
There's nothing wrong with taking a closer look at relationships where one partner is much younger, nor with increasing alcohol checks on Fridays nights, but the fact that it's a Friday night, or that one partner is 17, shouldn't be what makes it punishable.
There's nothing wrong with taking a closer look at relationships where one partner is much younger, nor with increasing alcohol checks on Fridays nights, but the fact that it's a Friday night, or that one partner is 17, shouldn't be what makes it punishable.