I guess it’d make sense to base it on brain development.

I have no idea what the best windows would be to promote the greatest reduction in false positive rape cases.

The biggest thing we as a society really need is a culture where the raped feel more comfortable speaking up. It’d probably be a decent thing to fund testing the massive backlog of rape kits piling up at the nation’s police forces as well.

No solution will ever be perfect so you can only attempt to do the least harm and help the most people in these awful situations.

Improving sexual education across some of our more religiously oriented states would be a positive as well.

Hopefully we keep moving forward. And what would be really nice is if some of these awful people Epstein trafficked these girls to went to prison.

It’s high time the rich and powerful started being held accountable for their absolutely atrocious behavior, whether it’s selling enough oxycontin to hook huge swathes of the population on heroin (the Sacklers certainly seem to be getting a better treatment than your average crack dealer), raping underage sex slaves, or leaking hundreds of millions of Americans social security numbers the rich and powerful seem to laugh and shrug it off.

That’s gotta stop.

Rape is always illegal.

Sex is not.

> Just like drinking with 21 and 20.99 years is not the same, because

they're American.

We start at 18, no problems here, no mass shootings, no one selling out to older people to buy alcohol for them.

> So by applying your logic to that, 13 and 364 days would be OK too?

So by your logic 14 and 1 days is ok?

Or, as Stallman said, rape cannot be defined by minor things such as the place where it happened or the age when it happened?

> How do you feel about that, not entirely comfortable right?

Completely.

It's your country that allows older people have sex with baby girls, not mine.

> Because you're used mentally to 18 years being the line,

Don't assume we are all like you.

I'm mentally used to being normal at 15-16...

Because that's the age when people around me started, when I was their age.

> But all the laws are like that

Not even those about rape are all black and white.

Even statutory rape is usually treated differently if the minor is just around the age of consent or not.

> If 18 is the legal age, you just don't mess with minors, how complicated is that really?

That's exactly what Stallman did.

He never messed with minors.

What upset you so much?

Agree, and that's exactly the kind of absurd RMS was talking about.

That's it, just that.

He can't concive that something is illogical.

Does he deserve the blame for it?

> let's just say that if defending rich old men screwing young kids is apparently your hill to die on

It never happened though.

That's the point: in court you could be charged for saying it.

My reasoning is: rape victims are victims regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, time and space.

But it's not Twitter crowd that decides if it is rape or not.