
03-08-2006, 09:38 PM
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The point I was making was that a country's law should have no sway beyond their borders. It says that their law is stronger or more valid than the law of the other land.
Child porn is an excellent example of this, as this is something abhorrent to us and easy to bend moral outrage into legal superiority.
I asked in another thread about a boy and a 17 year old girl having sex. If the girl was American, the boy a Brit, the sex consentual, all on an Australian beach, under this mindset the boy is liable to be charged with statuatory rape.
This is called extra-territoriality. Israel is good at pulling it too.
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