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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No one is accusing him of rape. Just saying his view on the whole thing is sketch as fuck.

17 is enough to be a consenting adult in some actual reasonable countries.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

What, do you think someone's 18th birthday suddenly magically transforms them from a child to an adult overnight? The line has to be somewhere, and I'm perfectly happy with it being 18, but other countries having a slightly different line doesn't make them all rapists.