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This guy also has a whole post on Substack complaining that the left is too wary of age gaps in relationships and that this is an “attack on heterosexuality” or whatever. It’s kind of funny how these “anti woke” types will decry that queer people are all groomers and yet proclaim that age gaps and adults dating teenagers is part of heterosexual culture under the same breath.

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Because the only thing that’s keeping them from the most depraved things humans can do is the laws. They grew up wrong. The rest of us are asking to live our authentic lives and they can’t think of anything that would stop us, upon living our authentic lives, from committing depraved acts because that’s what they would do if the laws allowed it. We ask to be allowed to have healthy relationships between consenting adults and they see a dangerous precedent that once we’re allowed to do that, then what else are we allowed to do. Its from a basic difference in where they think ethics and morality come from. I think ethics and morality come from within ourselves and that laws should be written to establish communal protections that allow people to achieve true freedom from oppression. They believe ethics and morality exist separate from humanity and laws exist to ensure intrinsically bad people (everyone) remains moral. Within that group, the repressives we’re talking about in this post are truly the most dangerous.

Look. All this is super complicated and I’m realizing I’m over simplifying entire systems of ethics it took me 35 pages single spaced to describe in college. Its valuable to have discussions about where ethics come from when discussing politics because ultimately that’s what you actually vote on and about

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Edit: replied to the wrong comment. I absolutely agree with you

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Very well put, thank you

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That was some wild and deranged shit holy fuck. And the comments too.

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There is a loooooooooooooong fucked up history of this being sanctioned by organized religions of all types. It stems from the patriarchal ideal woman being a baby factory and is absolutely a barbaric practice. The men in these religions are conditioned to be interested in young virginal girls that they call women but treat like property.

https://phys.org/news/2020-08-reveal-patterns-sexual-abuse-religious.html

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352250X20301421

https://www.gotquestions.org/child-marriage.html

https://www.salon.com/2018/03/11/banning-child-marriage-in-america-an-uphill-fight-against-evangelical-pressure/

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/child-marriage-and-religion-in-the-united-states

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Wait, how come she’s old enough to make the decision to have sex, but she’s not old enough to have access to her money?

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Because a) statute of limitations and b) lawyers cost money. No, I think you are right, the simpler explanation makes more sense.

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To be fair most women i know had sex at 14 or younger. None got 10 million for it.

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Having sex with your peers is are appropriate teenage behavior. Being preyed upon by pedophiles isn’t. Being taught about selling your body also isn’t. I’m not sure where you’re having problems “being fair” here.

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I think the assumptions you made is that 1, they were peers and 2, that they regret it in hindsight. Im still in the male/no category, but even with their much older and more mature brains they still think that was a consensual interaction.

Im just thinking the wider possibilities and Ideas because, let’s be honest, we’re not discussing either a possibility or policy change - its just not going to happen.

One was happily fucking her way through men double and triple her age within the first 6 months and had the only regret of an STD - why should she not have been able to take 10 mill for something she was going to do anyway?Does being paid suddenly make it not OK?

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☝️ The weird guy in question

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I wonder how many women he knows.

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This is just prostitution with extra steps.

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No, he’s just paying for the 14 year old’s time, anything that happens after is between two adults an a adult and a child, who consent, share a racecar bed, are abusing extreme power dynamics!

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with extra steps

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Money is irrelevant. Its child sexual abuse by a pedophile and idealised by other pedophiles.

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What extra steps ?

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Taking away consent. I don’t care what the parents say, she isn’t mentally developed enough to make an informed decision, nor understand the psychological impacts.

Edit: so prostitution, adding in rape. Any parent who agreed to this should not be responsible for a child

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What a creeper, it’s almost he wants to do something similar; Yikes, is all I have to say.

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Wait, doesn’t this just mean the sample size of men was more than 3/4 of the entire survey population?

If you are trying to run a binary-gender survey, wouldn’t it make more sense to have 1:1 representation?

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It’s this own dude’s readers responding to him. 10/10 self own.

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