Agreed. These individuals are no better than taliban.So a 57yo guy is seeing a 17yo girl? And several of the posters here think it's ok for the father to cut the guy's balls off with a breadknife. they say that's what they themselves would do in his position!
does this make you despair of the human race? is there any hope for our culture, if we instil our scum with so fragile a hold on the basic principles of morality and justice?
The relationship was consensual, according to police. So whose business is it, but the couple's own? You might not be deliriously happy for your daughter to be in such a relationship, but if that's what she wants, hey.
do you realize, we actually know of several people (e.g simon482, onthebottom, mac-eng1985), here, on this board, who, if their daughter were to date someone they don't approve of, would willingly castrate the guy!
Thank you god for arranging the world so that I am not beholden to pondlife like that. My commiserations to those not so fortunate.
Nothing funny about a guy getting castrated by a deranged idiot. For your next joke, try one about female genital mutilation.The father will most certainly be charged. However the case will be thrown out of court because the evidence would not stand up.
Well said. I'd rather not have father who was crazy violent in controlling the behavior of one's daughter. I expect the behavior spills over into other areas of the relationship. To call it extremely disfunctional is being kind.I've also been disturbed by some of the comments in this thread, though I wasn't sure what to say about them. I guess that personally I feel like 17 year olds make lots of stupid decisions about which other 17 year olds to sleep with, so I don't know why it's automatically so much bigger a deal when they make stupid decisions about which much older people to sleep with. Perhaps more importantly, however incompetent 17 year olds may sometimes be to make decisions for themselves, their parents are often as bad or worse judges of what they should be doing (certainly comments in this thread haven't reassured me about the wisdom of parents), and you have to let them make their own mistakes sometimes. When a guy chops off his 17 year old daughter's boyfriend's balls, if the daughter's on the boyfriend's side, my inclination is to wonder how much other crazy bad shit this maniac is doing to control his poor daughter's life.