The Lonious Monk
Celestial Souljah
Ima tell you and I want you to keep an open mind instead of trying to see where I’m wrong.
How morality isn’t real and is a social construct
A social construct is a concept that exists not in objective reality, but as a result of human interaction.
Yall are making it a big deal that this girl was 17, in other places girls much younger are sold into marriage. By people who don’t see it morally wrong. Morally wrong to you, because it’s not apart of your moral social construct based on where you have grown up.
To them, your objection to this is morally wrong, that’s their social construct.
Back in the days in which this happened, groupies of all ages pursued entertainers who used them for what groupies are used for. 17 back then is not viewed at that same severity of the moral construct of 17 right now.
These men who were by your morals already morally effy, didn’t take that age at the serious as you are now, and did what they do with groupies. These groupies, yes, at that age knew what they were getting into.
Even if they didn’t understand the long term ramifications of it, put their well being in the hands of people they knew didn’t value them. Because what they got out of it was enough for them at that time.
Is it morally wrong now, in the grand scheme that men took advantage of that impressionable women. Absolutely, was it a gang rape? That’s a tremendous charge.
In your moral construct, was it statutory by law, absolutely, in the time that it happened, was that issue pressed like it should’ve been, no.
If this happens yesterday with how things are morally strewn today, absolutely gang statutory rape if anything even if consensual, can you make the same case with how things were back then, absolutely
Would it be widely seen by those who participated In it at that time was that much of a morally reprehensible act, no.
That is why morality isn’t a real thing, it’s based on the views of the people who have them, and not on objective facts.
Its not to say we shouldn’t adhere to morals, it’s to say don’t apply the morals of today to the situations of yesteryear
Cause when you do that, we all have shit to answer for, and ignorance could never be used as an excuse. We were all ignorant at some point.
This like the first time I actually bothered to read one of your posts. You make a good point. Morality kinda works on a sliding scale. A lot of the time it's influenced by access to more knowledge. Back in the distant past, it was nothing for dudes to have sex with 9 or 10 year olds because to them, the sign of a girl being ready for sex was her having a period. Now, most of us would find that disgusting. That's due in large part because we understand better that a period doesn't stop a girl from being a child. There are many other indicators of maturity that must be considered. On top of that, there's the fact that people routinely live to 70+ in America, which means we don't have to rush things as much. 16 years old in a society where the average life expectancy is 75 is different than 16 years old in a society where the average life expectancy is 35. A lot of morality is relative and dependent on circumstances, which is why I do think it's unfair when we try to judge the actions of people in the past by modern standards.
That said. Some shit is just wrong, and people understood that even when it wasn't illegal, and a morality shift of 30 years shouldn't be treated like its 300 years. Maybe 30 years, a 30 y/o man fucking a 17 y/o wasn't seen through the same lens as it is today. That could be true. However, even back then, a bunch of grown men gangbanging a chick that was still in high school was still seen as some scumbag shit.