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0 pointsTeMPOraL6y ago0 comments

Ok, let me be 100% frank.

If RMS commits suicide because his life was ruined after someone lied and spun his linguistic pedanticism as support for sexual crimes, if that happens, will you come back and say that "this is what consequences for shitty behavior look like"?

Also, his wrong is again his language pedanticism - comparing it to actual assault like you did just now is disingenuous and precisely what the crowd did to RMS.

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widowlark6y ago

"I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren’t voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing."

PavlovsCat6y ago

And it's even worse than just that, since that's him freely associating in response to an article containing this:

> The party said it wanted to cut the legal age for sexual relations to 12 and eventually scrap the limit altogether.

and

> The broadcast of pornography should be allowed on daytime television, with only violent pornography limited to the late evening, according to the party. Toddlers should be given sex education and youths aged 16 and up should be allowed to appear in pornographic films and prostitute themselves.

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rodgerd6y ago

Interesting that you're using the same process - threats of suicide - that Stallman has used to get dates.

TeMPOraLOP6y ago

Didn't know that. I guess I keep discovering new things about RMS.

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