I’m a father. I love my son very much. But if he ever pulled shit like this, I wouldn’t defend him. I’m raising him to be better than that. Being family doesn’t mean automatically defending everything your family does, no matter how horrific.

Just out in your hand, available to be grabbed? That detail makes the story much more questionable.

And yet, tons of commentors rushed to say the guy being prosecuted for sex with a 15 year old at a Florida high school was not a rapist. It’s amazing how many people will defend this kind of shit.

So, you’d be into it if it were a completely different dress?

Better, amazingly.

Better, amazingly.

When judged against RPGs as a whole, or even just JRPGs, FFXIII is definitely a decidedly above average title.

I don’t give a shit about the trading cards, but I’m super glad they’re there.

The situation you are describing is not at all the situation described in this article.

Future Batman right here.

Actually, in most states that have “Romeo and Juliet” laws, the scenario you described is still a crime. “Romeo and Juliet” laws typically don’t decriminalize the action, they just reduce the penalties. For example it may be a misdemeanor rather than a felony, or no longer involve mandatory sex offender registration.

Rape is sex with someone who does not consent. Legally, fifteen year olds cannot consent.

Not all sex. Just all sex with minors. That’s why we have a law against it.

It’s rape because she’s fifteen. That makes everything else irrelevant.

15 year olds cannot consent to sex. That’s the whole concept behind the laws against statutory rape.

It’s statutory rape regardless of whether the perpetrators are ‘of age’ or not.

Seriously? He rapes a 15 year old, and your heart goes out to him? There are cases where criminal charges against 16 year olds are appropriate, and this has to be one of them.

Hrm. Hard to say. The veganism definitely gets you some hipster points, but you also lose some for the dislike of Wes Anderson and Quentin Tarantino. I think it might depend on which super hero movies you like, and whether you’d say you enjoy them ‘ironically’ or not.

Such a thing exists?

Thanks for the spoiler right there in the headline.

Yesterday I played as Reinhardt on a team with 5 Soldier 76s. We still won, somehow.