• Jax@sh.itjust.works
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    No, it’s that he was a hebephile instead of a pedophile.

    There is a distinction between the two, they are both still fucking bad.

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        No they are ust saying there is a difference. That’s why there are two different words.

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        No, I’m not — I was disgusted to hear Megan Kelly try to draw some kind of positive distinction between “barely legal types” and “children”.

        Personally I don’t consider the distinction between terms to be meaningful beyond human need to categorize. A 12 to 16 year old is still a fucking child, a 17 year old is still a child. There are plenty of arguments to make about whether 18 year olds are adults.

        That being said, nothing about my comment suggests that I support the message they’re trying to portray. Maybe read the entire comment before calling me a conservative next time, ok?

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          the more they try to come up with new terminology to excuse it away, the more I just put them in the bucket labelled ‘kid fuckers’.

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            I think that putting enough thought to categorize between hebephile and pedophile is already and upsetting amount of my brain power spent on people who hurt kids.

            I have a better thing to call them — castrated. Or dead, I don’t care — whatever prevents this from happening to other children.

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              I have a better thing to call them — castrated. Or dead, I don’t care — whatever prevents this from happening to other children.

              I too dream of a day when consequences are a thing for shitty people. keep hope alive.

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          It’s the same old defense heard from conservatives everywhere. He’s not a pedophile, he’s a hebephile. Whatever