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Good thing I don’t take advice from pedos who "date" 17-year-olds when they’re 39 😃
Stop watering down the term. Yucky? Sure. Pedophile? No.
Emphasis mine. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedophilia.
A little further down:
So basically below 16
I quoted the psychiatric definition on purpose.
The general population has a tendency of diluting medical, mostly psychiatric, terms, either rendering them meaningless (see people describing themselves as having OCD because they are quirky) or even turning them into slurs (see various names for intellectual disabilities, like "imbecile", "idiot" and so on).
I have an issue with that specifically. I replied to someone else why stretching the age from "prepubescent" to "below the legal age of consent" (hell, some poster even suggested "below the legal age of majority even if the legal age of consent is lower") bugs me.
He's a type A fucking creep and a pederast if you want to get technical about it.
Dude, nothing's creepier than people who are eager to argue about the exact definition of pedophile.
& nothings more disgusting than twisting legality to engage in sadism.
It won't be fun when it happens to you. Actually; why stop there ? Take away due-process too while you're at it & burn your bill of rights
This current administration is currently doing the whole no due process and attempting to burn the bill of rights. And they are also pedos. So what is actually your point?
Don't become like them. That's my point, unless you are already.
How's that moral high ground, dude? Feeling good about yourself? Calling me creepy, knowing fuck all about me.
I replied to others what's my issue with people diluting the term, just in case you give a shit.
Wow a morally & ethically-sound person on lemmy that respects the rule of law.
You are a rarity, sir/madam
Whats the deal with girlfriends? You pick them up from school, and all they talk about is homework, and who's going to the school dance! Don't girlfriends know people who oppose genocide are worse then the KKK?
actually if its not from the pedophile region, otherwise it's just sparkling child abuse
you and that other weirdo in this thread really need to check yourselves
Ad hominem. How refreshing. Yawns. You'll get right along with that
.blahaj.zoneguy/gal/NB-person in the replies.What is a "pedophile region", anyway? Epstein's Island? And what's with that "otherwise"? Are you saying that pedophilia in "pedophile regions" is NOT child abuse? You should work on articulating your thoughts better, it's challenging to understand what you're trying to say.
You probably can't imagine someone that doesn't have the same desires you have, but I wouldn't have sex with a 25 year old kid let alone a 17 y.o. one. Both look like kids to me and present no attraction whatsoever.
Maybe you’re not old enough to understand, but once you get older, people start to look very young. That’s why some of us think it’s so gross.
Yeah & as long as they're consenting adults/above age of consent, I have no business calling them pedos. You missed that part, Mr/Ms False-Accuser
Your reply to someone mentioning someone 'dating' a 17-year old is "let's not pretend you're not gonna bang a hot young girl". WOW. Even if you're gonna be pedantic and say you meant young women yourself, not underage. It's fucking disturbing, to say the least, especially in this context, and you don't know the other person. So it just sounds like dumb projection.
Hasn't stopped you from "knowing" the guy mentioned in the post "is a pedo" right ?
What I DO know about Seinfield is that he considers KKK a good thing & so I'll call him a white-supremacist.
I've talked about a very specific thing in your post, and now you talk about something else about which I didn't mention a word. I'm going to return to the wisdom of not arguing with idiots and block you.
if thats really what you think this looks like then your discernment is... unreliable
So a non-answer. What a waste of human potential.
Yes, you certainly are.
Projecting are we (along woth another non-answer), unlike you I'm not a cretin that goes around twisting laws. But hey keep projecting, it's going to be fun when you're on the recieving end if such corruptive attitude.
I get to sleep soundly knowing that I am morally bankrupt.
"Projecting are we?"
Wow, lots to unpack here.
You can argue about definitions all day if you want, at the end of the day, if your daughter somehow "dated" a 39-year-old, I'm hoping you'd want the guy arrested. The vast majority of people would call it pedophilia, and calling it "tasteless" is a hell of an understatement.
"let's not pretend you're not gonna bang a hot young girl". Hell no. Speak for yourself mate. I'm 26 and I would NEVER date an 18-year-old, let alone "date" a 17-year-old when I'm 39.
"you're nowhere to be found when the genders are reversed". Who are you talking to? Whether a man or a woman has sex with a minor, it's still statutory rape. I know there are some so-called "press outlets" that word things differently when it's a woman having sex with a minor, where they use terms like "had sex" instead of "raped". I think it's appalling. I'm not part of the crowd you think you're addressing.
"It hasn't been 5 seconds & the guy responded with his butthurt, looks like I hit the nail on his character" Again, who are you talking to? My first comment is the one where I called Seinfeld a pedo, and this is the second one. I posted my initial comment 6 hours ago and came back 6 hours later to see that I had apparently caused a shitstorm.
I sure wasn't expecting to see a brigade of strange individuals arguing about the definition of pedophilia. Are you usually this enthusiastic about semantics?
Yes when it comes to laws & due-process. Will you be this enthusiastic when you get a taste of your own amoral-medicine ??
BTW, people are considering calling old men who date 25 y/o women as pedos. So good luck when the goal shifts again. Looks like your "unpacking" skills needs work
First you talk about laws and due process, then you talk about morals. Which is it? I'm not sure which part of what I've said is either illegal or immoral/amoral.
Dating a minor is bad, whether legally or morally. Some countries enforce this with no exceptions, while some allow exceptions for people who are close to the same age, like a 17yo dating a 19yo. Feel free to prove me wrong, but I don't think there are any countries in the West where an actual fully-grown adult is allowed to "date" a minor.
On an individual level, morals are technically malleable and arbitrary, but the law doesn't (and shouldn't) give two shits about that. If you think dating minors is perfectly fine, explain that to the judge.
And if you still want to argue about semantics, then sure, maybe in some countries, there's an age-based difference in legal terminology between "an illegal relationship with a minor" and "pedophilia", but outside of the legal realm, they're one and the same. I have no respect for pedos (crazy, right?) and certainly won't defend them, whether they diddle 9, 12 or 17yo kids.
"people are considering calling old men who date 25 y/o women as pedos" Yeah, and "people" are saying Hillary Clinton is a lizard. "People" say Paul McCartney was replaced by a clone. "People" say all kinds of shit. "People" is no one and everyone at the same time. You can make "people" say anything.
At the end of the day, a 25-year-old is an adult, and therefore cannot be a victim of pedophilia. Therefore, old men who date 25-year-olds are supercreeps, but not pedos. I'm not defending them, I'm only saying that you can't put an old guy in jail for dating a 25-year-old, simply because no matter how reprehensible you think their relationship is, they're both adults in the eyes of the law. The guy is still a creep though.
What is there to argue about? Who are you defending exactly? And what makes my reasoning so "amoral"?
"when you get a taste of your own amoral-medicine" "when the goal shifts again" I'm pretty sure my aversion to dating immorally young people will protect me from any slippery slopes and moving goalposts in the future.
17 is old enough to decide you want to fuck somebody, for sure. hell, the age of consent across most of europe is 16 iirc...
there's a world of difference between drugging a/o raping woman/children, eastein and our pedo in chief, and choosing to fuck some guy for his $
(jerry still a piece of self-centered, self-serving piece of shit to be clear...i'm just still in the camp that words have meaning)
Would you look at that, the mods deleted my comments, because they had no way of countering logic.
Inciting dangerous acts of false allegations & calling it moral is not a can of worms you lot wanna open.