KevinP

I'm from Miami, unincorprated NW Miami-Dade County specifically. PM me.

The first podcast I ever listened to was 804 - Defending Christianity, a review of an article from an Objectivist philosopher/essayist whom I had been reading for close to a year. The way Stef dismantled his arguments and brought that same laughter mentioned earlier made me curious and prompted me to listen to more. He was also effectively critical of the practice of many Objectivist writers to quote Ayn Rand as if her words were settled "gospel" truth, which helped me to shake loose a fairly slavish devotion to Objectivism and start to think about philosophy as a whole.

Let me get this straight: On a forum about as dedicated to the eradication of child abuse in all forms as you can get, you propose a moral situation in which a social worker hears a confession of child abuse from an abuser. And your answer, "which should be consistent with UPB, if you have a healthy understanding of ethics," is to let the abused child remain in the care of the abuser? No.

No, rape is ultimately a question of consent, a violation of a person's self-ownership. "Statutory" rape is defined because people below a certain age are considered unable to consent to sex.