However, this seems like one of those comments that’s going for outrage over rationality.
I disagree that it matters, but the point of the controversial statement was that there’s a different term and level level of moral culpability between a person having sex with a 17 year old and the same person raping a 2 year old.
A tweet responding that they’re both illegal misses the point completely.
Genocide is illegal and jaywalking is illegal. We don’t equate them morally just because they are both illegal.
Just like how a person who rapes an infant isn’t morally equivalent to a person having sex with high schoolers even if it’s illegal to do both in your state/country.
The rational response is to read and understand comments before letting outage compel you to say something ignorant. A lesson that both you and the tweet writer should learn.
I agree that this situation is outrageous, and that Megan Kelley is disingenuously trying to create cover for Trump. Nothing I wrote says anything otherwise.
You’re doing this ignorant thing that chronically online people do where they assume that any kind of disagreement automatically means that the person is on the other ‘side’ of the issue. Instead of actually responding to what I’ve said, you’ve created a strawman in your head that believes something outrageous and are attacking that strawman instead of what I’ve said.
And, to demonstrate the complexity of the real world, I can say all of that about you while also agreeing with you that Trump is a pedophile.
I agree with the underlying sentiment.
However, this seems like one of those comments that’s going for outrage over rationality.
I disagree that it matters, but the point of the controversial statement was that there’s a different term and level level of moral culpability between a person having sex with a 17 year old and the same person raping a 2 year old.
A tweet responding that they’re both illegal misses the point completely.
Genocide is illegal and jaywalking is illegal. We don’t equate them morally just because they are both illegal.
Just like how a person who rapes an infant isn’t morally equivalent to a person having sex with high schoolers even if it’s illegal to do both in your state/country.
The rational response to grown men sexually abusing children IS outrage. You sound like you should be on a list.
The rational response is to read and understand comments before letting outage compel you to say something ignorant. A lesson that both you and the tweet writer should learn.
I agree that this situation is outrageous, and that Megan Kelley is disingenuously trying to create cover for Trump. Nothing I wrote says anything otherwise.
You’re doing this ignorant thing that chronically online people do where they assume that any kind of disagreement automatically means that the person is on the other ‘side’ of the issue. Instead of actually responding to what I’ve said, you’ve created a strawman in your head that believes something outrageous and are attacking that strawman instead of what I’ve said.
And, to demonstrate the complexity of the real world, I can say all of that about you while also agreeing with you that Trump is a pedophile.
A distinction without a difference for the purposes of the conversation surrounding this insanity.
Both are illegal. Full stop. That’s where the conversation needs to end when discussing whether or not someone should be prosecuted here.
The varying levels of severity aren’t relevant at this stage.