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Originally Posted by martyh
Which in turn points to him being incompetent .
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No. The suggestion is that he didn't want to know, as he wanted to avoid being seen as not respecting the editorial independence of Newsnight. This resulted in him doing (If I remember the phrase used correctly) 'the wrong thing for the right reasons'.
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Originally Posted by Chris
If you're suggesting that sex between an 18-year-old (adult) and a 15-year-old (child) is routinely treated as criminal, then I politely suggest you're a bit batty. 
Actually, I know you're not trying to draw a hard and fast line, but that's precisely the problem, isn't it? Where is the line?
When the law is thus undermined, it is not surprising that the arbitrary line between "acceptable" and "unacceptable" underage sex is a blurred and shaky one. |
It seems more likely to me that the line between acceptable and unacceptable is actually blurred and shaky and no amount of crying "it's the law, and it's there for a reason" is going to change that.