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Old 10-13-2006, 02:12 PM   #19
9th Engineer
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Didn't something regarding this come up in the news recently? Something about how some parents wanted to press charges on a 19yo girl for having sex with their 15yo son or something along those lines. The state refused to press charges even though they pointed out that the act was illegal under the written law even if no one really calls people on it. The idea of 'the spirit of the law' is BS in my opinion. There is what the law says, and what it does not say, both of which can be determined from what is written in the book and nowhere else. None of this "well that's not what it says, but it's what it means" crap. Or "but it wasn't intended to cover cases like that", well guess someone should've written a claus in there huh? If the law doesn't actually say what it's supposed to do then we have some incompetant politicians/lawers who need their names published.
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