Richard Stallman Defends Epstein: Victims Were ‘Entirely Willing’

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I have nothing to back this up, but I feel like nerds who get "honored with a slew of awards" or otherwise are very successful often are so full of themselves that they end up saying inappropriate things.

Of course, the thing with underage girls is that they're not mature enough to decide whether they "want" it. The purpose of the age of consent is to protect them from sexual exploitation because of that. I wonder what's so hard to understand about this, especially for an educated man.

Sexual Morality has been a slippery slope for a long time; there is no real moral quality that we can asses. Its a moving goal post (in this case, seems like the elite are hoisted by their own petard, though I doubt the real powerful people ever get in trouble for their double standards)

In the end, I am guided by moral principles that increase fertility and increase family unity.

Seems like corporate America decided to kill sex and kids, so that their labor supply is increased and their employees will stay late. (And will eventually be hoisted by their own petard as the labor market shrinks, and consumer demand dries up.)

So it goes.

And let’s not discount that these girls didn’t sign up to be child prostitutes.

Stallman has been a pedophile apologist and rape victim blamer for many years.

He's had some pretty shocking things on his personal site for a while. I wonder if now is when it finally catches up with him.

Sigh, I remember the good old days when eating toejam was his big controversy.

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