Re:The media's hit piece on Richard Stallman
by taylodl on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @09:35AM
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Seeing as how being branded a pedophile makes you a pariah you would think we'd have come to some consensus as to what exactly pedophilia is. Seeing as how reasonable people around the world have been unable to agree upon such a definition then we should be careful before applying that label. If truth and morals are things that actually exist and are discernible then we should be able to figure this out. Discussions such as this are the means for how we go about that.
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Re:The media's hit piece on Richard Stallman
by eesmith on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @12:33PM
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Epstein clearly wasn't treated as pariah even after a pedophile conviction so your statement is not always correct. Ditto Roman Polanski.
Kissinger is a war criminal. He's not treated as such. Truth and morals therefore aren't the only factors in the political-legal system.
I still want there to be a definition of war criminal, even if there isn't an agreement. Ditto for pedophile.
Discussions are worthless if people don't don't listen. Stallman wasn't listening to the existing discussion when he made up his definition of what "sexual assault" means.