subgenius wrote:MeDotOrg wrote:After a while, I think about Hakim's razor, which says that all things being equal the simplest explanation is the right one.
That's a common misinterpretation of the razor, you should research it further. It's equally as simple for them all to be lying...jus sayin...that's the same kinda simple and the same misapplication of the razor.
Are you say it is equally possible that 9 women are lying, compared to the word of one man? If you theoretically acknowledge the possibility Roy Moore was capable of this behavior, how many women would have to come forward before you would believe them? If forty women came forward, would you say that was too many, an obviously showed a conspiracy? What would be the right number of women giving the right kind of testimony be?
MeDotOrg wrote:He married his wife when she was 23, which means he was checking her out a dance recital when she was 15.
subgenius wrote:You've been beating this drum for a while, to mostly deaf ears. Because most people in the 70s didn't care if a 20/30 year old noticed a high school girl, especially in Alabama. It's rather like being disgusted at George Washington over slavery.
I certainly have to give you credit for finding a commonality between dating teenage girls and slavery being the social norms of their times.
Roy Moore is not guilty, and all of these women are not telling the truth.
But at the same time, 'noticing' teenage when you were a 30 year old men "noticing" and dating 16 year old girls in the 70's was no big deal. So if dating teenage girls was no big deal and part of the social norms, where are the happy girls that went out with Judge Moore? Why isn't there a cheerleader coming forward to talk about her wonderful prom night with the handsome young Mr. Moore, who was a perfect gentleman? Quite frankly, when I think of a 30 year old man dating a teenage girl I think of a guy who is too insecure or immature to have a relationship with a more age appropriate woman.
I don't know if I was 'most people', but I came into my 30's at the end of the 70's, and I can tell you no one I knew thought dating high school girls was normal behavior. I would have thought anyone doing it was creepy.
subgenius wrote:Besides, Moore is being accused of hitting on females ranging from ages of 15 to 28, which is peculiar...most pedophiles don't have such a broad range of taste...but hey, I'm not a voter in Alabama and like you and everyone else here, it's not our call. I don't let Alabama tell me how to vote either.
That clarifies things. I guess we'll ask for State I.D. before anyone is allowed to comment on an issue or a candidate.