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Well, many people described RMS as a creep. And when the accusations are true, that for example he told women they should date him or he kills himself, than that is valid.

He openly advocated against criminalization of pädophiles. That gets you the term pedo, even though not fair, it is playing with fire.

And if it was indeed a case rape, in the sense of exploitation of a minor by minsky, who felt the rush of lust, which the other sides asume, than he is a rape apologist, if he says the most likeley scenario is, that she presented her as "willing", as this is, like I said, the common rape defence.

But like I said, I allmost don't know any actual facts, except that the whole discussion was horrible, as most people did not know nor wanted to know facts, before judging.



> Well, many people described RMS as a creep. And when the accusations are true, that for example he told women they should date him or he kills himself, than that is valid.

If.

And was it "women" or "a woman"? Once? Maybe, like, 30-40 years ago? If happened, it was a shitty thing to do, but it shouldn't have any effect on a person's life decades later.

Maybe consider the whole span of his career before readily accepting 3-4 vague rumors as something really damning.

> He openly advocated against criminalization of pädophiles. That gets you the term pedo, even though not fair, it is playing with fire.

True. But that's been known for years. And stating one's opinion once on a personal blog is not a crime.

> But like I said, I allmost don't know any actual facts, except that the whole discussion was horrible, as most people did not know nor wanted to know facts, before judging.

It's unfair to conclude "everybody behaved badly" and shrug when only one side is paying the price.

Espesially since the choice to move the "discourse" to the social media plaforms (inhabited by very different people) has been made by the original accuser.




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