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Originally Posted by unicus
The term is mental disability.
Now with regards to consent I'd say a child (especially below 12) cannot give informed consent and I would expect there are laws in place with regards to vulnerable adults too (I'll ask my wife later - she works extensively in this field).
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I would appreciate that.
<offtopic> i was rereading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson) and came across a passage which kind of fits to this whole "A crime has been committed but who cares" mentality:
The only chance now, I felt, was the possibility that we'd gone to such excess that nobody in the position to bring the hammer down on us could possibility believe it.
The mentality of Las Vegas is so grossly atavistic that a really massive crime often slips by unrecognized.
Seems to fit rather well in the current political climate, a starving man shoplifts a loaf and winds up sentanced to life, whereas Corporations sell human rights to the highest bidder and seem to get away scot free.
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Im left wondering why we even got involved in fighting the world wars, clearly Hitler won and the rest of society was too busy celebrating to notice the fact.