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I really hope this wasn't meant to be as grossly insulting as it sounds. Your lengthy defence of the age of consent appears to imply that thir needs to be convinced that children should be protected - and it's probably just as well that she's away from the list for a few days, because she will be both horrified and spitting fire when she sees it. Did you really mean to imply that?

I am not spitting fire dear Lord, because I am fairly sure that that was not the implication.
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I'm used to guilt-by-association from the worst end of the Religious Right: if you support gay marriage you must be in favour of underage marriage, if you support abortion you must approve of infanticide. But this is the first time I was ever told that if I support the right to suicide I must approve of child abuse.

It can be read like that, and I too abhor that way of arguing. I do not think it was meant that way, but I do agree with you that one should probably be aware of taking a discussion in totally different areas from what was under debate, or at least be very clear about it.

But again, I do not think that that mail was meant that way at all.