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I really, really, do not understand why some people's reaction to this is trying to get him fired or to apologize. Right here we have one human being that will

I really, really, do not understand why some people's reaction to this is trying to get him fired or to apologize. Right here we have one human being that will ponder on random issues and offer his honest opinion. He will do it without regard for social pressure. This is an incredible rare thing! This is an amazing thing, go browse your Facebook or LinkedIn feed and see how "authentic" it sounds. What's more, this gentleman is a very rational person and does not shy away from thinking about pedophilia and various paraphilia. What's more he seems truly inquisitive in understanding how to measure what Minsky did, what motivations and perceptions each participant had, etc. This is so much more important than just getting revenge, being constantly angry on the internet or just saying Epstein was evil and calling it a day. We need much, much more people like Stallman and much, much less people that will cry foul on a Medium post when someone doesn't go along with what they want.

plorkyeran 7y ago
People who will jump on every excuse to go "well akshually it's not pedophilia" or "well actually it's not sexual assault" on the internet are not even slightly rare.
- victoro0 7y ago
  But they will be anonymous and the level of conversation will probably not be very high.
  - plorkyeran 7y ago
    The MIT mailing list thread that provoked this whole discussion was pretty indistinguishable from any of the millions of reddit discussions on the exact same subject.
- mindslight 7y ago
  It seems that you have a desire to hyperbolically label things as "pedophilia" or "sexual assault", and simply don't like it being called out. And so you're engaging in social bullying based on stereotypes ("akshually") rather than keeping to the truth of the matter.
krainboltgreene 7y ago
> Right here we have one human being that will ponder on random issues and offer his honest opinion. He will do it without regard for social pressure. This is an incredible rare thing! It's neither rare nor authentic nor is it even well reasoned. Every reddit and twitter thread is filled with the same carbon copy half-assed responses.

plorkyeran 7y ago

People who will jump on every excuse to go "well akshually it's not pedophilia" or "well actually it's not sexual assault" on the internet are not even slightly rare.

victoro0 7y ago
But they will be anonymous and the level of conversation will probably not be very high.
- plorkyeran 7y ago
  The MIT mailing list thread that provoked this whole discussion was pretty indistinguishable from any of the millions of reddit discussions on the exact same subject.
mindslight 7y ago
It seems that you have a desire to hyperbolically label things as "pedophilia" or "sexual assault", and simply don't like it being called out. And so you're engaging in social bullying based on stereotypes ("akshually") rather than keeping to the truth of the matter.

krainboltgreene 7y ago

> Right here we have one human being that will ponder on random issues and offer his honest opinion. He will do it without regard for social pressure. This is an incredible rare thing! It's neither rare nor authentic nor is it even well reasoned. Every reddit and twitter thread is filled with the same carbon copy half-assed responses.