He's not a pedophile. 17, 18, even 14 ... all are post-pubescent. At most he's an ephebophile. I'm getting annoyed hearing people call him a pedophile. It's just not accurate.
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that also explains the dispute over what Milo Yiannopoulos meant by claiming he wasn't a pedophile because he counted young men 16 or over as "not children" but legally able to consent.
However, in both cases there is still the risk of psychological abuse and coercion going on.
It's one thing if you openly ask consent of the parents and family to court younger partners, in order to date or to marry with honorable intent.
Otherwise, taking these younger people to private meetings or settings alone lends itself to coercion and abuse, and not open honest intent.
As for Roy Moore, his bias in judgment too easily introduces personal influence on cases that he has authority to decide. This is as wrong for Conservatives or Christians to impose their personal beliefs on a case or policy representing govt as it is for Liberals or LGBT to impose their beliefs instead of remaining neutral for the sake of the public.
However the law is notorious for only defining "conflicts of interest" if there is a legal or financial relationship with parties, and doesn't consider someone's "personal or political beliefs" to be a conflict.
I think it is way overdue to start addressing this whole culture of electing and paying people to impose their biases and beliefs, and recognize the govt should have remained neutral instead of allowing political beliefs to dominate the process and the policy decisions resulting that discriminate against people of opposing beliefs.
we've never directly and specifically addressed political beliefs as something to be separated from govt, but this is yet another case where someone's personal beliefs can be argued as affecting judgment in a case that violated the rights, beliefs and protections of others.
How bad does it have to get before we finally agree to stop imposing beliefs and start resolving conflicts and problems directly?
None of this is solving the actual problem!
At what point do we focus on what it will take to prevent and correct abuses, instead of just exploiting abusive cases to go after people politically! Enough!
We should be at the end of this learning curve by now,because we can't afford the debts and damages of bad govt, corruption and abuse. If we can't pay for the costs we face now,then all these past cases of abuse need to be assessed, and damages/restitution paid back, in order to afford the costs these problems have racked up over the years at taxpayers expense.
Instead of just complaining, we need to start collecting. And demand reimbursements for govt and legal abuses, corporate and political fraud misrepresentation and waste, and use those resources restitution and credits to fund the reforms and corrections we really need to sustain govt services for the country and economy for healthy productive development.
This isn't helping, but just wasting more time energy and resources without solving any real problems. At some point this will have to stop when we all realize it isn't getting us any closer to solutions that we could be investing in instead.
