[Discuss] RMS

[dsr at randomstring.org (Dan Ritter)]

Seth Gordon wrote: 
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 5:55 PM Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 23 Sep 2019 12:55:13 -0400
> > Seth Gordon <sethg at ropine.com> wrote:
> >
> > > The English word ?cancer? can refer to anything from a skin tumor
> > > that a doctor can remove as an outpatient procedure, to metastatic
> > > pancreatic cancer that is certain to kill you within six months. But
> > > both of these things are still cancer.
> >
> > OK, let's go with that analogy. Can you imagine if every cancer,
> > including a minor skin tumor, were treated with heavy chemotherapy and
> > radiation?
> >
> > That's what we have when we define everything from taking a leak in a
> > woods where, unknown to you, a child was watching, to jumping out from
> > behind bushes and raping an 80 year old woman, are defined as sex
> > crimes, and the sheep like public is inclined to having a zero
> > tolerance policy on sex crimes. There are plenty of people forever on
> > the sex offender registry whose crime was having sex with their 1 year
> > younger than them girlfriend.
> >
> 
> I agree that this is a problem, but the solution to that problem is to
> change the law so that not all forms of sexual assault get treated with
> this ?zero tolerance? policy, not redraw the boundaries of ?sexual assault?
> itself.

And many (though not all) states have done this. They are
generally called "Romeo and Juliet" laws.

-dsr-