Labeling someone a sexual predator for this is insanity and police state. Once this is on their record, its there for life.
That’s too bad. Maybe, they ought to think twice before they do something stupid like sending pictures of themselves (or other people naked). The naked pictures in cyberspace are there, for life, too.
A great deal of this “sexting” involved kids sending pictures of other kids. There are cases where a jilted guy decided to get back as his ex-girlfriend by firing naked pictures of the girl (which she sent exclusively to him) to all his buddies. There’s no erasing that.
I simply cannot understand how a "religious" person could ever support laws that punish people for life where no victims are involved.
The victims are the people themselves. We've seen FAR too many examples of how sexually explicit pictures have come back to haunt people years after the fact. If you don't believe, just ask former Ms. America, Vanessa Williams.
Teachers have been fired for their porno flicks/pics, done years ago but brought to the surface.
No victims involved? I beg to differ.
From a "religious" perspective, harming yourself is just as bad as harming someone else. From a not-so-“religious” perspective, if you would bring harm to yourself, you’d be more likely to harm another.
Like I said, just because it is immoral does mean it should be illegal.
I am not in favor of granting the govt all these powers.
Maybe not! But something needs to be done about things like this and done quickly.
The problem is, you guys love to tell others what to do, that's the real problem, never mind your stupid religious beliefs.
So do “you guys”, never mind your stupid non-religious beliefs.
My fellow NYCer, the religious are obsessed with nonexistent crimes what wise people call victimless crimes. Believe it or not, they are even worse than leftists in telling you what you are supposed to do with your life...
PLEASE!!! Why don't you take a good look at your non-religious buddies who have heart attacks every December, when they see a Nativity scene. Who else get this bent out of shape about someone they DON'T believe to exist?
Then, there are those lovely lawsuits about our Pledge of Allegiance. Apparently two words (referencing Mr. Allegedly non-existent) have scarred their poor enlightened pysches beyond repair.
Preaching to the choir my friend. A lot of things would be a lot simpler if people just lived by the credo of live and let live and do whatever you want as long as you're not hurting anybody else, live your own life, etc...I think the future of the US could be libertarianism...
That silly mantra doesn't quite work out as planned in the real world, because at some point, "do whatever you want" takes precedence over "as long as you're not hurting anybody else", notwithstanding how easily people can be "hurt" these days (I refer you again to those pyschologically-wounded atheists) and harming one's self is just as detrimental as harming someone else.
