@masterofthetiger@theres.life I disagree with the Free Software movement's ideas of free software. 😉 I think open source code is great, I think claims that people or companies "own" code are absurd, and any license which restricts what I can do with my software (whether it's a EULA or the GPL) under threat of violence is immoral.
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@danielst @masterofthetiger@theres.life With regard to the first point, certainly. Age of consent is a culturally flexible concept. I think it's an important one, but not one that we have a dogmatic answer for. So, I don't find RMS's assertions here to be profoundly problematic. I'll happily concede the second point also: it's absurd to suggest that an arbitrary distinction of geography or chronology renders an act unethical. Raping someone is reprehensible no matter where or when it's done.
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@iamjameswalters @masterofthetiger@theres.life
Not sure if you got what I meant:
statutory rape is defined as "nonforcible" (wikipedia). That's why the term is misleading. In other languages it does not contain "rape". In German it's abuse. And that abuse is based on the arbitrary definition that below a.o.c. you are always abused, even though a day later (18) it would not be abuse, or if one had a preterm birth it would also not count as abuse despite slower development.