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A comment on Boys in Custody and the Women Who Abuse Them. Parent comment

Re:Boys in Custody and the Women Who Abuse Them by jimbob45 on Sunday August 29, 2021 @06:58PM (#28351258)
It’s fun to think in black-and-white terms like this but surely you can understand that there are (infrequently) gray scenarios that come up where your simplistic morality falls apart.

I agree with your theory but I would never blindly convict someone based on it in practice.

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Re:Boys in Custody and the Women Who Abuse Them by phone8675309 on Sunday August 29, 2021 @07:16PM (#28351375)
Can you be specific about where the parent comment is engaging in black and white thinking?

I’d also argue that thinking about the morality of rape isn’t "fun".

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Re:Boys in Custody and the Women Who Abuse Them by Jcowell on Sunday August 29, 2021 @08:39PM (#28351819)
The fun in the sentence points to “thinking in black and white terms” not about the morality of rape. It captures a larger set of all “thinking in black and white” instead the subset of what the specific instance was. English is funny that way.
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