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Which outrages you more?

Some mormon fundie men marrying in loving relationships underage girls and getting them pregnant and taking care of them....

or

Some typical school kids having babies at young ages, often leading to abortions, financial distress, and/or dad jumping ship like a rat.

Due to media coverage, I would have to say the mormon fundies outrage the average joe more than the second scenario. But from a societal perspective, only the second places a burden on us. The fundies are brainwashed in their own way, and they are happy as a result of it. The second scenario are too brainwashed by media, advertising etc. and clog up welfare systems among other government services. Is the first one really so bad?

For the record I agree with neither, just an objective perspective.

Update:

So based on the first few posters, you are all basically saying the media is out of touch with the common perceptions of the people.

Update 2:

I bring it up primarily because I recall a big media outcry over this around 17-18 yr old in jail for like 10 years for having sex with an underage girl, he was underage as well. The media wanted him freed. I reiterate, burn pedo's as the stake.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Way to the softsoap the child molestation.

    Wes: You don't have any teenage children, do you?

  • 1 decade ago

    You asked an interesting question.

    For the record, It bothers me more when babies are aborted, killed in the womb or killed partly out of the womb.

    Many girls and women get pregnant out of wed lock and society, the tax payers have the burden of providing for them and their children while the "sperm donor" who calls himself father is out making more babies with other women or girls. Men and boys who do this should be given a choice to go into the Army or Marines or be exiled from the United States, right after they get a MANDATORY VASECTOMY.

    It is also a MAJOR big burden to have Soldiers, Marines, Sailors and Airmen all over the world as if it is our place to "protect" everyone else.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The media outrages me. That other stuff is not really doing much harm to me compared to the unacceptable journalism that is now the mainstream.

    A court trial is not particularly newsworthy if it will not set a precidence or otherwise make a noteable change to some aspect of the lives of the audience that the story is directed at. Otherwise, it is nothing but entertainment... "fluff". Most of what now passes for news is fluff, or at best, propaganda.

  • 1 decade ago

    first of all, "underage" is completely arbitrary. when a woman menstruates, she is capable of biological reproduction, being a wife and mother.

    a woman is best when married to your "mormon fundie man" because he is likely old enough to be established and stable, better able to provide her and her children stability. there is nothing outrageous about this.

    the latter involves fornication, philandery, infanticide, child neglect, abandonment, and a total decay of society.

    women will find the former objectionable because it allows younger women to compete, threatening their stability in old age.

    men will find the former objectionable because their wives will tell them to.

    perhaps you would be better to combat the second problem by ending the welfare system and reintroducing virtue to your educational curriculum. the first problem isn't a problem at all unless you are jealous.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I think the issue with the Mormon sect is that they weren't loving relationships, there was question about them being forced. Whereas in the second situation, each party has the choice to engage in dangerous sex or not.

  • 1 decade ago

    It is human nature for young people to want to have sex. Natural instinct. Man's invention of God, religion and doctrine has led to the 'mormon fundies' aka dirty old men twisting the belief system to their advantage. They get my vote for creeps of the year award.

  • 1 decade ago

    As a father, neither is going to happen to my daughter if I can help it.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    "loving relationships underage girls"

    >????????<

    It is called INCEST when an old farts shtups a child.

    When a child fools with another child, it is stupidity but not a crime.

  • 1 decade ago

    Neither outrages me more. Both are equally horrific.

  • 1 decade ago

    Both are equally bad.

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