>[M] But the problem we have always faced is the more successful we become the
>more fertile the environment for rot. Just look at the US today. Is it not
>only our 200 years of history of doing the right thing that made us rich
>and powerful enough to do so much wrong in the last 40 years? The national
>debt and the trade deficit, massive third world immigration, outsourcing
>our industry, interference in and bullying the other countries of the
>world - are they the result of "favoring rationality"?
[J] They are the result of Lord Acton's axiom: Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Not to mention da jooz.
>
>[M] Every previous empire has fallen. Perhaps it is because they all abandoned
>the principles that got them there. And perhaps acceptance of pedophilia
>is one of those principles, the "canary in the mine", if you will.
[J] The Greeks practiced 'Greek love' for a thousand years. I don't think pedo had anything to do with the survival of the Greeks, except perhaps to enhance it. Remember Plato's remark that an army of men and their catamites would fight furiously so as not to be shamed in their lovers' eyes, and thereby would 'conquer the world'.
>
>Besides what I have already mentioned, there are some important confusions
>in your letter. Perhaps the most important is your confusing toleration
>with embracing. For example, you imply that I embrace pedophilia,
>bestiality, incest, etc, whereas the most you can truthfully say is that I
>believe in the great guiding principle of liberty, which is to LEAVE
>OTHERS ALONE. This is the great problem with both Right and Left --
>neither believes in liberty. They have just GOT to inject themselves --
>usually in the form of the Dad Gummit -- into everybody else's lives. The
>Right wants to meddle with sex and religious practices, while the Left
>wants to stamp out racism, sexism and the free market, and as a
>consequence, both are just as meddlesome as the old gasbag that lives down
>the street. As a libertarian I can only say, A pox on both their houses.
>Or to put it slightly differently, let's stop trying to regiment everyone,
>and instead allow some DIVERSITY!
>
>[M]As a self-described right-winger, I do not agree with your definition.
[J] I didn't offer any 'definition', but merely observed that 'Blight-wingers' were just as big control freaks as lefties, the difference being only in the kind of behavior they wanted to control.
>[M] Except when a crime has occurred, the most you would get from me is
>disapproval, and my disapproval does not infringe on your rights at all. I
>am not a Republican, or even a conservative, who are actually what you are
>describing.
[J] Ah, but there's the rub -- what is a 'crime'? Is pedo? The Blight wing certainly thinks so. But maybe you are enlightened enuf to grant that it is not -- ie, not a True Crime.
>
>[M] So now we're back at the beginning. To clarify our terms, pedophilia is
>not rape, and it's not performed through violence or threat of violence.
>It's consensual sex between an adult and a child, and the issue in dispute
>is whether a child can consent. There are other times when children cannot
>legally consent: they cannot sign a contract, they cannot accept certain
>jobs, they cannot drink or smoke, they cannot choose to not attend school.
>We believe they are too young and too immature to make their own decisions
>about certain very significant things. We think their naivete can be
>exploited by suave and mature operators, and they can be swindled into
>making very bad choices. So we protect them as best we can with our laws.
[J] Here we go again. You are going to 'protect the children'. Yeah, Just like Ronnie was famous for saying, "We're from the government and we are here to help you." No thanks, Jack. As I have said from the outset, children are far, far better off as the property of their parents, not of the State, and if you know anything about Child Protective Services, you'll know why. (You can ask Ed Steele about that one.) Under normal circumstance, the parents will do just fine. If not, then their DNA will be consigned to oblivion.
>
>Another important defect in your polemic is your glib declaration that the
>way you want the world to be -- viz, free of pedophilia, incest,
>bestiality, etc -- is 'healthy and normal'. The problem, however, is that
>YOUR definition of 'healthy and normal' may differ radically from someone
>ELSE'S definition. That's why the issue needs to be debated. And that's
>why I have chosen to debate it.
>
>[M] Ah, but therein lies the rub. We cannot change each other's minds. We can
>only hope to pass our values onto the next generation and try to win that
>way.
[J] Bool Sheet! If I didn't believe people's minds could be changed, I wouldn't be running thebirdman.org, and neither would da jooz be running their media empire. Nor would you be trying to change MY mind.
>
>Do you think that a western woman who moves to a fundamentalist Islamic
>nation could ever be convinced it is unhealthy and not normal to show her
>face? She might wear a burqa so she would not get beat up or put in jail,
>but could she ever be shamed if a man got a glimpse of her? If you don't
>feel something is wrong, no one can tell you that is; and if you know it's
>right, no one can tell you that it's not.
>
[J] I thought we had laid the intuition issue to rest.
>Another point I wish to make is contained in a quote by the inimitable JBR
>Yant: "To a philosopher, there is nothing so beautiful as the ugly truth."
> Or to put it another way, the purpose of philosophy is to explore the
>corners and limits of man's mind and man's experience -- corners and
>limits which are often dark and frightening, and in fact so dark and
>frightening that most people throw rationality to the wind and often
>become literally hysterical when they approach these corners and limits
>too closely. That is what we see practically every day in examining the
>Holocaust, and it is what we are seeing now in examining pedophilia, as
>witnessed, for example, by the letters from Steele and Anonymous.
>
>Fair enough, but Mr. Yant should also consider that sometimes there's
>nothing so ugly as the ugly truth, too. And if it's truly ugly, we are
>completely justified in reacting hysterically to its potential acceptance.
[J] You don't get it, do you? Hysterical reactions are those in which the party has LOST CONTROL OF HIMSELF. Nothing justifies that, tho, like shit, it happens. Women do it habitually -- 'hysterical' comes from the greek word for 'womb'. But men are supposed to be better than women who, in the words of GK Chesterton, are but 'children of a larger growth'. Hey, speaking of pedo...
>
>In closing, perhaps it would open your mind to recall that the font of
>Western civilization, ancient Greece, explicitly embraced adult-child
>homosexual sex, and in fact idealized it. There has apparently been a
>conspiracy to eradicate knowledge of this, but it remains a fact, and
>tomorrow (Tuesday) I will be posting the lengthy Wiki article on the
>subject, found here:
>
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pederasty_in_ancient_Greece
>
>Thanks for writing. -j
>
>[M] That may be true, but remember that the most most powerful nation in the
>history of the world embraces feminism, homosexuality, brain-dead
>conformity, ruinous economic practices, interracial mixing, varying
>degrees of socialism - I could go on. Maybe a thousand years from now a
>Jewish economist will recommend massive national and personal debt because
>the mighty US had it at the peak of its power, so it must have been a
>contributing factor.
[J] As I said before, the Greeks practiced pedophilia for a THOUSAND YEARS. Feminism and the rest, on the other hand, are relatively recent phenomena imposed on us by ZOG (Zionist Occupied Government). There is simply no comparison with ancient Greece.