> If you’re gonna make a bad faith interpretation of my comment like that, you need to make it sound more plausible.
Yes this sort of things feels bad when it happens to us… which is ironic because you were ok doing it to someone else :)
> Here’s what I’m actually saying: it is morally absurd to define rape in a way that excludes an adult in their 50s having sex with a 17 year old
He was arguing against the fact that statutory rape in USA is a boolean value basically.
You are making it sound like rape is legal if it happens to someone old… when in fact rape is always illegal.