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20% Topic moved to Lounge as it has nothing to do with Incel discussion
I was perusing the ole greentext board on a certain shithole site and came across these comments:
View: https://www.reddit.com/r/greentext/comments/pwltyk/comment/heij9m0/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
View: https://www.reddit.com/r/greentext/comments/pwltyk/comment/hej9zo7/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
View: https://www.reddit.com/r/greentext/comments/pwltyk/comment/hejg92o/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
Got me thinking, I find these arguments fairly ... reasonable actually. Normally you just see the same ole vitriol without any real engagement with the other side of the debate.
Could be I'm missing something though, but garbo sites like twatter/le reddit where everyone seems to be a walking SJW drone and won't even consider the possibility that an issue could be the teensiest bit more complex than their one-sided view for it will drive you mad. I've started migrating over to other sites with less draconian free speech/censorship practices, there's just only so much lefty retardation I can take in a given day when they don't let even let the other side state their point of view.
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"This is the "FPS players are maniacs and mass shooters" again"
"The reason we have age of consent laws is because below a certain age we assume a person is not sound of mind enough to make such a decision. Or, that they lack power/agency at that age so there’s a high chance any relationship would be coerced. These are of course valid reasons I fully support and agree with. In that example, seems to me these have been addressed, no? If someone is 9000 year old vamp with the intelligence of a standard adult plus super powers then the entire premise for age of consent laws no longer applies (of course this is only possible in fiction). Seems to me people can get it ingrained in their head that “X is bad”, but forget ”why” X is bad. If you remove the “why” then X would then no longer be bad. I think u/Soggy_Cheek_2653 is spot on with their example. Do people who love Grand Theft Auto all secretly harbor the desire to gun down their fellow men in cold blood? Should they be considered criminals of “thought crime”? Most people grasp the difference between fiction and reality."
"Not what I said mate and you’re pulling an Ad Hom instead of addressing my actual points. But let’s roll with what you’re saying anyway. A person does not have to be attracted to children to understand the valid reasons behind age of consent laws or how those can be addressed in the realm of fiction. Of course acting on attraction to minors is unethical — I think people should NOT do it for the reasons I laid out in the first block of my original comment (it seems like you didn’t actually read it). However, attraction is not something people choose to have or not have. One is attracted to what they are attracted to and then one chooses whether or not to act on said attraction. “Having” the attraction is not the unethical part. Let’s say you have a person who’s attracted to children and they recognize that acting on this would be unethical — so they never do. Let’s say they draw themselves doodles and play make believe in a story they create where the premise totally removes the valid reasons behind age of consent laws (9000 year old hyper intelligent super powered vampire, etc). If that’s as far as it goes, they’ve done nothing wrong seems to me. Some people make the “slippery slope” fallacy in response to this, but until that example person acts in reality they’ve done nothing unethical."
View: https://www.reddit.com/r/greentext/comments/pwltyk/comment/heij9m0/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
View: https://www.reddit.com/r/greentext/comments/pwltyk/comment/hej9zo7/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
View: https://www.reddit.com/r/greentext/comments/pwltyk/comment/hejg92o/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
Got me thinking, I find these arguments fairly ... reasonable actually. Normally you just see the same ole vitriol without any real engagement with the other side of the debate.
Could be I'm missing something though, but garbo sites like twatter/le reddit where everyone seems to be a walking SJW drone and won't even consider the possibility that an issue could be the teensiest bit more complex than their one-sided view for it will drive you mad. I've started migrating over to other sites with less draconian free speech/censorship practices, there's just only so much lefty retardation I can take in a given day when they don't let even let the other side state their point of view.
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***edit --> in-case the mods/admins remove those ima back em up here -->
"This is the "FPS players are maniacs and mass shooters" again"
"The reason we have age of consent laws is because below a certain age we assume a person is not sound of mind enough to make such a decision. Or, that they lack power/agency at that age so there’s a high chance any relationship would be coerced. These are of course valid reasons I fully support and agree with. In that example, seems to me these have been addressed, no? If someone is 9000 year old vamp with the intelligence of a standard adult plus super powers then the entire premise for age of consent laws no longer applies (of course this is only possible in fiction). Seems to me people can get it ingrained in their head that “X is bad”, but forget ”why” X is bad. If you remove the “why” then X would then no longer be bad. I think u/Soggy_Cheek_2653 is spot on with their example. Do people who love Grand Theft Auto all secretly harbor the desire to gun down their fellow men in cold blood? Should they be considered criminals of “thought crime”? Most people grasp the difference between fiction and reality."
"Not what I said mate and you’re pulling an Ad Hom instead of addressing my actual points. But let’s roll with what you’re saying anyway. A person does not have to be attracted to children to understand the valid reasons behind age of consent laws or how those can be addressed in the realm of fiction. Of course acting on attraction to minors is unethical — I think people should NOT do it for the reasons I laid out in the first block of my original comment (it seems like you didn’t actually read it). However, attraction is not something people choose to have or not have. One is attracted to what they are attracted to and then one chooses whether or not to act on said attraction. “Having” the attraction is not the unethical part. Let’s say you have a person who’s attracted to children and they recognize that acting on this would be unethical — so they never do. Let’s say they draw themselves doodles and play make believe in a story they create where the premise totally removes the valid reasons behind age of consent laws (9000 year old hyper intelligent super powered vampire, etc). If that’s as far as it goes, they’ve done nothing wrong seems to me. Some people make the “slippery slope” fallacy in response to this, but until that example person acts in reality they’ve done nothing unethical."
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