I don’t think it’s fair to chalk it up to “unwillingness to think things through”, though, and that’s my point. RMS doesn’t seem to me to fully appreciate the emotional landlines in some of the subjects he discusses. When you’re talking about software licensing there’s some wiggle room, but when the subject at hand is pedophilia, successful communication requires a degree of tact and nuance that I’ve not often seen him use.

If you say something that 1% of the audience completely misunderstands, so be it. There’s always going to be some contrarians; haters gotta hate. But if the majority of the people have a different interpretation than you meant, then maybe the problem is in how you said it.