TIL Children as young as eight can and have been put on the sex offender registry, which lasts the rest of their lives.
TIL Children as young as eight can and have been put on the sex offender registry, which lasts the rest of their lives.
Registries continue to punish youth years and even decades after they have served time. Data and research show that registries don’t improve public safety.
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We'll eventually see this period of history as being as extreme with sex crimes as the 80s were with seeing satanic cults everywhere.
Some day we’ll look at all this and laugh just as we do with that “Satanic Panic”
With the difference that the huge number of satanic cults people assumed and talked about did not exist.
While the huge number of sexual assaults, rapes and sexual harassment sadly does exist.
I feel people are now starting to care more about putting the lid on it, by various degrees, without there being any real progress in the number of cases. People are "more aware" didn't really lead to more empathy or more help for sexual abuse survivors. There seems to be a bigger push into the direction "well it's just a part of life, stop talking about it already".
I don't think so, especially considering that we have 8 year olds on sex offender registries which is just retarded.
The problem with rape is that many times its very hard to impossible to prove, especially when time has passed. Sometimes it's possible with messages sent to and from, sometimes with a rape kit.
But what if there was a rape without witnesses where she was so afraid that she didn't move, and later je "simply" claims she was a consenting partner?
What if she actually was a consenting partner and then retroactively claimed it was rape?
Things get very muddy and dicey very quickly and we're still living in a "innocent until proven guilty" society, thankfully, but it does make rape a very complicated subject
Well, what do you propose?
Is it really so hard for you to agree we should start with "not putting 8-year-olds on the sex offender registry"?
I don't live in a country where something like that is a thing. We don't have a register for any type of offense.
But the person I asked wrote about rape in general. That's why I asked. It wasn't about a register for juvenile offenders.
The registry and minors being added to it is the topic of the OP and every comment that follows. Your supposed ignorance of the concept was exhausted as an excuse already.
We can add the anti-vaping nutjobs to that list too.
Anyone screaming "think of the children!" should always be viewed with suspicion.
What's any of this got to do with not liking vaping?
All research shows vaping to be essentially harmless, especially compared with cigarettes. But governments and private interests are pushing to get it banned, taxed, and are otherwise attacking it. All because it "harms children".
At its most basic it's water vapour. You know the one thing you're not supposed to get in your lungs... water. And you can't exactly trust what certain research shows, it's too early in the lifespan of vaping to truly know it's ramifications. Cigarettes used to have research having then saying they were good for you.
At the end of the day though, what's the fucking point of vaping other than to be another addictive substance for those on the bottom to be beholden to, like an addict tax keeping their take home income as low as possible. It's just not something the world needs, so why defend it? Have you got the addict equivalent of buyers bias or something?
Edit: okay I'll concede on the water vapour thing. Still don't want chemicals in my lungs past that though.
Also to say something else on vapes... I'm fine with it being a stepping stone to get people off cigarettes. The only issue with that is that it's much more accessible to puff on a vape at any point in the day (as long as it has charge) too the point where someone might actually end up using it way more and at a more concentrated level than what they'd do with cigarettes. It's not great.
I dont know if water is the one thing I shouldn't get in my lungs
take pudding for example
Its not water vapor, nor is it dangerous to inhale water vapor. Vaping is not safe, but you don't make a very good argument as to why. The person you're responding too is also partially correct although they are wrong that vaping is completely harmless. People are often led to believe its more harmful that it truly is because health problems relating to black market marijuana cartridges were falsely attributed to normal vapes.
It's not water vapor. It's mainly propylene glycol and vegetable glycerin, plus flavorings and (optionally) nicotine.
I don't care if people defend vaping, they're the ones damaging their bodies, not me.
I do think it needs to be more regulated, in terms of where you can and can't vape. Just like I don't want to breath in second hand smoke, I don't want to breath in your vape
Yeah waiting in queues and walking behind people that value is fucking awful. Especially when they're trying to cosplay as Thomas the tank engine.
Neverminding that it's not just water vapor, fog and humidity are also water vapor, and yet we breathe them every day. The substance itself isn't really the issue. Now, it being hot water vapor, at a higher concentration, and carrying more things than just water vapor, you have some points to stand on.
Harm reduction is also a very real thing. Sure , vaping is another thing for people to be addicted to. People are going to be addicted, almost everyone to something. I'd rather myself or anyone right now be addicted to vapes than cigs, because it's LESS harmful, at least according to the current consensus. Of COURSE I'd people just not be addicted but that's a looooong way off. Stepping stones are good things.
You know the one thing you’re not supposed to get in your lungs… water.
What the fuck lol that's not how anything works
You've never breathed humid air before? That's water vapor
And you can’t exactly trust what certain research shows
WAKE UP SHEEPLE
Alright, keep your vapes. I don't want anything to do with them, including second hand
That's fine, I totally respect that. Just please don't ban them for the rest of us.
This is a reasonable take. No one wants to force them on you or anyone else. If someone's vaping and you're breathing it in secondhand, sure they're a problem, and you should probably politely ask them to be respectful, then get reasonably upset when they don't. But let them have their thing otherwise.
There's water vapor in your lungs right now
They are either working for a vape company or so hopelessly addicted they can't admit negatives.
It's actually propylene glycol vapor and vegetable glycerin vapor.
Your lungs need water to function and also u don't vape water vapour the fact you said that shows that u haven't researched any of this indepthly.
"Indepthly"
"I'm going to pick apart someone's lack of vocabulary knowledge instead of their argument"
Edit: I was confused
Nah you're good. My point was he wasn't engaging with your actual, perfectly readable, response because you deigned to use the wrong word.
Edit: design -> deign.
Nicotine still has negative health effects, even without tar. It is not harmless. We've also had multiple waves of badly manufactured carts with lead contamination, chemicals known to cause lung damage, etc. It harms everyone who vapes. And everyone whose face they blow vape into. But, it at least far less obnoxious than actual cigarettes.
the bathroom at work smells much better after a vaper has used it as opposed to the guy that smokes ciggies. not even good cigs either, they smell old and crusty
No matter how good it smells, the second-hand vape makes my nose and throat burn, and makes me cough.
is someone blowing it directly in your face? vape smoke dissipates pretty quickly
Nicotine still has negative health effects
At a similar level to caffeine. Less than Marijuana and much less than alcohol. Essentially harmless.
We’ve also had multiple waves of badly manufactured carts with lead contamination, chemicals known to cause lung damage, etc.
Maybe standards regulation is the answer instead of banning? But anyway, it's a small minority of carts that are poorly made like this.