Can't blackmail if nobody cares.

I think that's what the pedophiles are trying to do, move the overton window so it's not such a big deal.

Pedophilia is illegal, and that's not changing no matter how many grotesque articles are written. Adults having consensual sex with other adults is not illegal.

Sorry I see how my point can easily be missed as I brought this up kind of randomly in a thread about otherwise legal behavior. My point is the normalization of deviance.

I'm struggling to understand what you are trying to say. Why did you bring up pedophiles?

In media for stories surrounding Epstein and that class of people, we often hear of 'underaged girls' instead of 'children'. That is part of the shift of the overton window. Modern media is replete with children being put into adult situations (not necessarily media targeted at children, mind you) and that only helps to blur the line.

Okay cool. Maybe next time you have a thought related to raping children, maybe consider seeing if it relates at all to the thread you're in before you start typing.

The whole point is reducing the care. You can't blackmail what people don't care about. Your response is pretty callous. Saying "next time you have a thought related to raping children" like what the fuck?

If I said "you can't blackmail people for littering because people don't care, but littering is still wrong.", would we be making the same point, or is there a connection between this and Epstein that I'm missing?

If there was an effort to downplay littering in media then yes but I'm not aware of it. There's no direct connection to Epstein beyond blackmail. I regret bringing it up, I thought it would make for interesting discussion.

It just seemed to come out of nowhere, and following that guy saying he doesn't care about adults having affairs, it sounded like you were trying to say that anyone who doesn't care about this is somehow condoning child abuse? Which is why I was sure there was an Epstein connection I was missing, and also why I had a hostile reaction.

Now that I know where you're coming from, yeah, that is interesting.