We are talking about Minsky, because it's Stallman's comments about Minsky that are the problem. > The age of consent in Finland is apparently 16. 1) Not for

We are talking about Minsky, because it's Stallman's comments about Minsky that are the problem. > The age of consent in Finland is apparently 16. 1) Not for Americans visiting Finland. 2) Not for prostitutes in Finland. > But it is not true that Richard Stallman said the girl was "entirely willing"; I haven't said this. I'm focussing on the things that Stallman actually said. You yourself agree that these are enough to ask Stallman to step down. > he second is, Stallman is not the only target here: everyone else is looking at this and deciding how they need to act in response. If what the average guy sees is "he expressed a minority viewpoint and he was lynched", then they'll learn to simply not express minority viewpoints; they won't see what was really problematic about either the current behavior, or Stallman's history. Yes, this is entirely the point. We don't want powerful men to make public comments saying that fucking children is fine so long as those children have been brutalised into looking willing. We don't want powerful men saying that "voluntary" child sexual abuse isn't harmful for those children.