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To: i-node who wrote (138112)	7/12/2001 5:37:59 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1588046

The issue is the power differential. I think it is fine if you, as a [somewhat] older man want to hook up with an 18 year old. Its not that I have been hooking up with 18 year olds or even trying to but I wouldn't consider it evil if I did. I'm old enough to be the hypothetical 18 year old girls father but only if I was a dad at 15... What if Clinton as president or Gary Condit hooked up with a relatively powerless 30 year old? I wouldn't say a power differential is a problem as much as if the potential for abuse iherent in that power becomes actual abuse. Just as I would not consider it wrong or a problem if I bought a gun but it would be wrong and criminal if I use the gun to murder some one or for an armed robbery. The power can be used in ways that are very wrong but if it is not I'm not sure that I consider it a problem. If you have evidence that it was used in a wrong way (for example if you can prove what I consider to be an unlikely posibility that Condit was directly involved in Levy's disapearence, or if you have evidence that Katherine Wiley's claims are true) then we have a whole nother story. Clinton and Condit are much older then Lewinsky and Levy, but neither Monica nor Chandra was a young girl at the time of the affairs. Tim