- while his statements on Minsky are mostly logical, it misses some very important things:
“presented herself as willing”
a. i think she was too young to appear willing
b. he’s staying at this weird rich dude’s island and suddenly a very young woman wants to have sex and you don’t think she’s cooerced?
… i guess there’s some point in the term “assault”, but the other term would be statuary rape, which still implies violence…
but that wasn’t what i was talking about… i was talking about the few comments from before where he expressed his views on pedophilia…
given his position, i don’t think it’s responsible to try to claim pedophilia might be moral, if the child is “consenting”, etc…
like sure, it’s okay to discuss ideas… but he acted as if he knew for sure there’s no evidence that it’s harmful…
i don’t think he should be punished, but i don’t think he should be accepted as a spokesperson, figurehead, or leader…
at the very best, he’s speaking very harmful things out of pocket… at the worse, he’s rationalizing something he did.
i felt the same way about Stallman as i did about Allen Ginsberg when i found out he was a pedo…
really they all hate him and just want his supporters…