The Guardians of Freedom - Part 4 (standard:other, 8971 words) [4/7] show all parts
Author: Dan Tana	Added: May 04 2011	Views/Reads: 2157/1584	Part vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
The Guardians of Freedom stop the vendetta of a wounded child and prevent the eradication of the human race.

Greetings to all of you. 

My name is Theodore Fluffington. 

I am here today to tell you a tale of recent events, which begins with
several Guardians of Freedom trying to convince a brilliant, 
broken-hearted little girl named Marcia to stop inflicting bloody 
vengeance upon the people who robbed her of the company of an older 
friend, Arthur, whom she loves very much. 

Marcia's victims all insisted that because she had not yet reached a
certain age and he had already passed a certain age - and because they 
were not legally married - Arthur had somehow raped her when he allowed 
her to do some sexual things with him. 

Now let me be perfectly clear that there was no coercion, manipulation,
deception, or violence of any kind in the relationship between Marcia 
and Arthur.  She is at least as intelligent and thoughtful as a typical 
human being, of any age, and less reckless and impulsive than most.  
She knew what she wanted from him, and took it, with his permission, of 
her own free will. 

Those are the facts of this case, however unusual it may be.  Marcia's
intellectual and emotional capacity is not in any way diminished by the 
number of people her age who lack such faculties.  And the fact that 
there are some very selfish people in this world who choose to take 
advantage of the vulnerability of certain others - of whatever age - 
has no relevance whatsoever to the thoroughly decent way in which 
Arthur treated her. 

But there are some human beings who like to pretend otherwise.  These
people like to think that the age of a person is always an accurate 
gauge of certain other traits and abilities.  They like to imagine that 
Marcia's relative youth is a valid indicator of the true character of 
her relationship with Arthur, and find some sort of gratification in 
acting like it means that he has mistreated her in some real way. 

Some such people discovered what she was doing with Arthur and then
ripped him from her arms, both literally and figuratively, despite her 
vehement objections, and imprisoned him for breaking a law that is 
based upon those false premises. 

Marcia tried to explain to these people what had really happened between
her and her friend.  She told them that he had never had sex with her 
without her consent, or ever done anything at all to dominate and 
control her person, or selfishly violate her will for his own 
gratification, which she understood to be the very essence of the real 
crime of rape.  But they stubbornly refused to hear anything that she 
had to say about this matter. 

They casually dismissed her most articulate of arguments, and adamantly
insisted that someone her age could not possibly be competent to 
consent to everything that she had done with Arthur.  And then they 
contradicted that previous assertion, in an attempt to seem a bit less 
unreasonable, by claiming that even if she actually is presently 
competent and responsible enough to make decisions about how to live 
her own life she is still relatively incompetent and irresponsible 
compared to what she will become in several more years, which means, 
they insisted, that any choices that she makes at this point in her 
life are all relatively invalid compared to the different choices that 
she might make in the future. 

Marcia then told them that the typical human brain does not stop
developing until years after that arbitrary age at which they would be 
willing to respect her ability to make sound decisions, pointing out 
the hypocrisy of that excuse, and also explained that it is actually 
possible for her mental abilities and emotional stability to either 
increase or decrease with time.  Eventually she got them to concede 
that point and admit that there is no real basis for claiming that a 
decision made at one point in time by someone with adequate 
capabilities is invalid just because that person might become more 
capable at a later time, and she briefly thought that she had gotten 
through to them. 

But then they turned around and insisted that none of that applied to


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