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Cake day: June 11th, 2023
  • Robaque@feddit.ittoWorld News@lemmy.ml•Former Spokane Valley teacher gets no jail time for sex with student
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    9 months ago

    Is noone else gonna point out the absurdity that if the guy had been 1 year older, legally speaking there would’ve been nothing wrong?

    The problem here is the grooming (which I think it’s worth noting that adults can be victims of as well), the abuse of power dynamics, and particularly in this case the exploitation of another’s inexperience for personal gratification.

    But the article instead focuses on how the kid was “affected” by the teacher’s “criminal actions”, but then essentially just describes the kinds of consequences caused by the social stigma of student-teacher relationships. But this also happens in university, where it also carries negative social consequences, but not legal ones.

    My point is simply that the legal system is a flimsy caricature of morality/ethics, and in articles like these it really shows.

  • Robaque@feddit.ittoMemes@lemmy.ml•*Permanently Deleted*
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    1 year ago

    Yeah it is worth looking into why certain new “standards” get adoped and others don’t.

    Standards don’t ever get designed just to be the new universal standard, right? There’s gotta be some kind of improvement in mind, whether iterating on previous designs or otherwise. I’d say that in many cases the improvement is the focus for the developer, not the delusion of creating the next big “standard”.

    It’s better for “standards” to develop naturally as happens in FOSS rather than for them to be imposed by authorities that will resist changing them once they become outdated, or companies that don’t care either way and will follow the profit of least resistance.