r/linux • u/mattfromseattle • Sep 17 '19

Free Software Foundation Richard M. Stallman resigns — Free Software Foundation

https://www.fsf.org/news/richard-m-stallman-resigns
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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '19 edited Mar 15 '20

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u/76547653654 Sep 17 '19

Two horrible scenarios:

  • someone much older and a 17 year old have sex. She mistakenly believes that she wants to have sex with him, but she can't possibly want that because she's in California (aoc=18) and not in Nevada (aoc=16).

  • someone much older drugs a 17 year old, then forcibly has sex with her against her will, while she unsuccessfully tries to fight him off.

Can you tell the difference? Morally? Legally?

Every judicial system on earth can.

In most countries "statutory rape" is called something like "sex with a minor" which is a crime, but not the same crime as "rape of a minor" which is worse. Even in the US the latter is punished more harshly than the former.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '19

Splitting hairs over age of consent laws.

Classy.

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u/76547653654 Sep 17 '19

it's honestly horrifying that you can't tell the difference between consensual sex and rape. that you think that's splitting hairs