> I doubt he used the words "sexual assault" A child who had been captured by Epstein and coerced into sex with a bunch of people said that Minsky was one of t

> I doubt he used the words "sexual assault" A child who had been captured by Epstein and coerced into sex with a bunch of people said that Minsky was one of those people. RMS said let's assume it did happen, and then started defending Minsky by quibbling about the definition of assault. RMS said that minsky having sex with a coerced child shouldn't be called assault because assault requires force or violence. He's wrong. Assault has an every day English definition and it doesn't require violence or force. Assault has legal definitions and they don't require force. His position on the word "assault" makes no sense. This follows on from earlier comments where he said that children can be willing participants in incestual abuse, or that he thinks it's unlikely that children who are abused are harmed by that abuse. He retracted some of those after people told him that yes, in fact, children who are abused are often harmed by that abuse.