If one of my friends started defending pedophilia and saying it’s okay if the children consent then they would swiftly not be my friend anymore.
Judging someone for an opinion is not wrong and hiding behind a veneer of dispassionate intellectualism doesn’t remove your responsibility for your own actions.
I find it’s mostly arrogant tech fools who think it does. This sort of behavior is how you end up with Stallman defending pedophilia, rape being debated in the LKML, and idiots like James Damore.
I’m also just sick of hearing about how old nerds just don’t know any better even when people are literally telling them to stop. That the topic is a bad idea. That they will make themselves look bad.
And it’s deeply unfair to people who have issues to simply blame gross behavior in being “neuro-atypical”.
Except for the part where he got taken to a remote island by a billionaire and was presented with a very young woman who immediately wanted to have sex with him.
It was taken directly as the girl being “willing” when what he actually said was that she may have been coerced by Epstein into appearing to be “willing” to Minsky.
It doesn’t help that he has a documented history of fucked up comments in this general area.
Judging someone for an opinion is not wrong and hiding behind a veneer of dispassionate intellectualism doesn’t remove your responsibility for your own actions.
I find it’s mostly arrogant tech fools who think it does. This sort of behavior is how you end up with Stallman defending pedophilia, rape being debated in the LKML, and idiots like James Damore.