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Roger Ailes on Soledad O'Brien: 'That Girl That's Named After a Prison'

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Nyet4/13/2012 5:19:31 pm PDT

re: #166 Obdicut

How is this argument inapplicable to relationships between adults and children?

Because there is no analogy between an average child’s and average adult’s psychology (I’m not taking borderline cases which arise from the necessarily somewhat arbitrary delimitation of the age of consent). We can derive the average harm from child abuse because of what we know about children and adults. But you would actually have to show that adults engaging in such relationships do it because of coercion as a matter of principle (on average). Peer-reviewed studies, etc.

I’m still not sure why you call that a vague possibility and then say you’re sure it exists. A vague possibility is something that may not happen at all.

Do you mean for each individual case, it’d be a ‘vague possibility’ that a parent-child incestuous relationship was coercive?

What I mean is that it should be demonstrated that it’s not enough to enforce child abuse laws, and that it’s necessary to crack down on each adult incestuous power-differential relationship just because it is possible that it may have been started as child abuse. So I’m asking again: what percentage of incestuous relationships began as child abuse and continued into adult coercive relationships? And what percentage started in adulthood?