This is a discussion about morals. Morals are something I now hate because people have different views as to what this means. There's different levels. The average person or what is considered most acceptable is I guess whatever is within the 70% of the bellshaped curve. It seems it's what's most sensible, 35% in either direction of the middle...you're not an extremist in either direction. The problem is, it's still a regional thing. Like Innova says, being the US the world's superpower, Americans tend to see in only their way..they know US movies make the round ALL around the world so everyone knows US standards along with their own. I just have to travel south of the border a couple of miles and all of a sudden I'm submerged in north Mexican culture. For one thing, this age difference thing is not so taboo. It is not too uncommon for married couples to be 10 years apart. In fact here in the US it was so before too. I guess it's a conservative thing where the man has got to be "the man", the mature presence in a household that basically makes all the calls. As we become liberated from this gender role we're more into the equality between genders and with it, dating someone equal to you in age.

No matter where you stand, there will be some society or subculture in the world where you WILL be the deviant. It just keeps getting subdivided further and further even at the family level. You could all have been raised with the same values, but as you grow up and are influenced by different things/experiences than your siblings you find that your opinions may drift apart. And sometimes even on a personal level, I find I am my own devil's advocate...a walking contradiction as Innova states...and that is the trick: Decide what's good for Freddie. What are MY set of values and opinions on things? Not what's been pushed on me, both from the right and from the left. Do I think youthful beauty of women is the greatest thing since sliced bread because that's what's being pushed on my by all the movies and media? Do I think it's wrong to even think that youthful beauty is the greatest thing since sliced bread because it's what "morals" of my society tell me so?

Currently I prefer to be as open minded as possible. My on defined line is: As long as you're not harming others. The trick is, where do I define harm? Not just physical, but do you scar someone emotionally, subconsciously, mentally by being an influence on them at an early age? But everything influences how you'll grow up and who's to say what a positive influence is and what is negative?

People will always judge...you do what's good for you. That's why the theory of God would be so consoling. An ultimate judge who you'll have to justify your own views to.

Freddie

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