No matter how many it hurts, right? This was exactly my point in that many people, yourself included, worship the law and that any evil committed by the law is alright as long as it is in the name of the law. I can see by how you brushed off my idea of using good reason and judgment, that that is simply craziness! The idea that a judge or a jury could show mercy in a case like this is insane!
I would recommend that you think about the definition of justice. No part of it says that the legal system cannot use reasoning and judgment. And only the most warped and twisted viewing of it would think that a 17 year old getting a BJ from a 15 year old deserves 10 years in prison and sex offender status.
I say change the law if you believe it should be. Or is every “exception” worth fighting in the singular, even when it is thousands of cases?
Sounds like someone who loves the legal profession and likes to see appeals lawyers fighting the same case one at a time for thousands of clients rather than getting them all off the books at once.