Did the Internet corrupt peoples minds or did peoples minds corrupt the internet?

This boggles the mind that a judge could give a kid essentially a rape pass because he was "corrupted" by internet porn. Seriously? Corrupted? What porn was this kid watching that made him want to screw a 5 yr. old?

They act like every time the kid would log online the evil internet would just automatically take him to porn sites. On top of that, what about the parents? You can set up parental controls to prevent kids from accessing certain websites, so why not hold them culpable for allowing the "corruption" to happen?

It is no wonder people can't take our justice system seriously. Just reading some of the statements of that article "oh he will be labeled a sexual deviant forever!". Well yes because he raped a 5 yr. old. He was 14 years old not 14 months old, he was old enough to know better.

I know kids can do stupid things and thus we don't always penalize them as harshly as adults..but there just has to be a limit, there has to be a line where you say "even though he is a young teen..he still should of known better". If an adult would of gotten several years in prison..toss the kid into juvy for the same amount. I wasn't anywhere near being "wise" when I was 14, and yet I still knew rape was wrong. They are also saying "this will follow him around forever". Well yeah, when you rape a child..that should follow you around forever.

They say they couldn't release the kids name due to legal reasons. If I was the girls father I would just release his name myself to the world. I don't think it'd be illegal to name the person who raped your child, even if the police specifically can't.

Porn can't be demeaning to women in my opinion, considering statistics show the majority of women in the porn industry are happy with their career choice.

Originally posted by psmith81992
Porn can't be demeaning to women in my opinion, considering statistics show the majority of women in the porn industry are happy with their career choice.

Yep, and plus even if they aren't super happy..nobody is ever forced into doing porn. Or at least 99% of the time they aren't forced.

As far as that judge goes, he's as dumb as the Texas judge who have a teen a pass for manslaughter via dui because his parents never taught him right from wrong.

I'm leaning more on the latter. It's the people who corrupt the internet, NOT the other way around. The internet was made with good intentions. Unfortunately, there is more bad than good in this world. So all these sites based on vices and crime eventually took over the internet. It was inevitable.

Originally posted by psmith81992
As far as that judge goes, he's as dumb as the Texas judge who have a teen a pass for manslaughter via dui because his parents never taught him right from wrong.

Yeah that case was even worse because it made even less sense then this. The only way you could claim he isn't at fault because the parents never taught him right from wrong would be if the only people he was ever exposed to in his entire life were his parents. If he was exposed to other people, hell if he attended school..he'd have some concept or what is right and what is wrong.

Hell, he'd not only need to of never been in contact with anyone but his parents, but he'd also of needed to of never watched any tv or movies or read any books.

Though then if they want to say the parents didn't teach him right from wrong then the parents should of lost custody forever. Something tells me they didn't.