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Re:RMS addresses the free software community by 0x_rs on Monday April 12, 2021 @12:18PM (#26781223)
This is possibly not a fitting reply but your comment reads like satire to me, in all honesty. Both your claims in your first phrase I believe are wholly incorrect and could only originate from an out-of-context, accusatory source such as some articles linked in this thread that could not be more obviously manufactured to frame a very specific and offending perspective on a —ridiculously enough— discourse over semantics. There's no reason to state such falsehoods as definitive truths, unless one has covert goals or may have to reconsider their own views with a clear mind.
Re:RMS addresses the free software community by imwillofficial on Monday April 12, 2021 @12:32PM (#26781456)
I have read both RMS’ own statements on age of consent, I have read his statements defending minsky(s/p), and I’ve read firsthand accounts of students creeped out by his advances. None of those are acceptable for a person in a powerful position.
Re:RMS addresses the free software community by prepend on Monday April 12, 2021 @02:33PM (#26783222)
And you think that makes him a “statutory rape apologist” that seems like an unsupported , logical leap between your two posts.
Re:RMS addresses the free software community by imwillofficial on Monday April 12, 2021 @04:27PM (#26784728)
There is no logical leap. This is a direct quote:

"I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren't voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing."

Re:RMS addresses the free software community by prepend on Monday April 12, 2021 @06:48PM (#26786145)
That quote is nothing to do with apologizing for statutory rape.

Also, statutory rape is completely different than child sexual abuse. Pedophilia is child sexual abuse and a much more serious crime than statutory rape.

I don’t think the quote above apologizes for either.

Since you conflated pedophilia with statutory rape, it would be irrational for me to claim you somehow support pedophilia because you claimed it was similar to statutory rape.

But I wouldn’t do that because trying to label you based on a single comment is foolish.

Re:RMS addresses the free software community by torthrowaway998 on Monday April 12, 2021 @10:52PM (#26787660)
>Pedophilia is child sexual abuse

Pedophilia is the sexual attraction to children to be more specific, it is not child sexual abuse.

Re:RMS addresses the free software community by prepend on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @07:21AM (#26790740)
Good point, to be more accurate I should say that the crimes carried out because of pedophilia are more more severe than the crime statutory rape.