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Nearly the entire world considers 17 legal [1], including most of the United States. To deny there is a room for a conversation about age of consent being arbit

• stevenjohns 7y ago
  The entire thing is odd. RMS is questioning the morality of the law and the people opposing him are quite literally, unironically, upset because they use the law to derive their morality[0]. More than that, their criticism is based on an intentional clickbait-tier misreading of what Stallman was saying. And after learning this, people are like "oh well, screw him anyway, he's a weirdo." This includes people like Neil McGovern, GNOME Executive Director, who used the opportunity to threaten that RMS leaves or GNOME leaves the FSF. Living in a country where the age of consent is 16, the oddest thing I find in all of this is that people can hold a straight face while saying that sleeping with a 17 year old constitutes pedophilia but seem to completely ignore that their country tries 13 year olds as adults[1] when they deem it fitting. [0] https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFallacies/73/Appeal-to-the-Law https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFalla... [1] https://oklahoman.com/article/5580060/13-year-old-boy-charged-with-first-degree-murder-in-deadly-crossbow-shooting https://oklahoman.com/article/5580060/13-year-old-boy-charge...
  • CathedralBorrow 7y ago
    That seems like a very definitive description on why you are right and everyone who disagrees is wrong. Do you allow any room for interpretation here?