Comment by ramraj07 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by ramraj07 | Hacker News Reader

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I have the right to attempt to silence or ostracise anyone for anything. Whether or not it’s successful depends on the situation and climate of the world at that time.

He has the right to say whatever he wants to say as well. He wasn’t jailed for it just fired for it. Ask him to suck it up and then everyone here can also do the same thing instead of crying a river.

Also, please try to show a single example of a person who defended pedophilia and ended up not being one? Discussing age of consent with respect to reducing it below 18 sounds like tacit support of the same. Many countries have lower ages, sure, but its not clear to me that this is because they were morally thought through decisions, mere figments of history that people cling to in the name of culture (also many of the decision makers seem happy to have the freedom to have sex with 14 year olds as well I suppose).

Maybe you can tell us what's so magical about the age 18, that warrants calling people who support lower age limits pedophiles. (it doesn't even match the psychiatric definition)

Brain is not fully developed by age 18 anyway, not by a long shot, and there's no obvious developmental milestone there either, like puberty, or whatever.

Exactly , on one hand you have an age when most humans are capable of conceiving and have fully developed secondary sexual traits (nature's way to say a person is sexual mature) , say around 14/15 and on the other hand you have the age of a fully "developed" brain, around 25, when at least in theory a person is mature enough for all intents and purposes.

18 tries to establish a sensible balance from both extremes, but there is nothing magical or moral about it when compared with 17 or 19 or whatever in than range.

> I have the right to attempt to silence or ostracise anyone for anything. Whether or not it’s successful depends on the situation and climate of the world at that time.

Well, not really. If you try to ostracize someone for being black you'll quickly face legal and/or social sanctions.

>Also, please try to show a single example of a person who defended pedophilia and ended up not being one?

Does expressing skepticism of the scientific basis behind anti-pedophilia laws constitute "defending" pedophilia? Furthermore, if the argument is valid, who cares who's mouth it's coming from? This looks like a lazy attempt to dismiss someone's argument.

> If you try to ostracize someone for being black you'll quickly face legal and/or social sanctions.

One wishes that were true, but in most places in the developed west it absolutely is not.

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