As an adult, it's on you to disengage the sex talk when informed that it's inappropriate. It doesn't matter if you're being lied to; if someone tells you they're 14, you by default believe them and disengage.

You do not drive to their house with lube and condoms!

bsky.app/profile/prof... and excuse this one does. Even with how that show turned out in the end, calling what they did entrapment is either stupid or malicious.

These men actively pursued a sexual relation with someone who repeatedly stated they're a minor.

The idea here is that we're lying to ourselves when we filter our basic impulses through our numerous social conventions, rules etc.

But that's just what being human looks like. It's actually really fucking weird, and always has been, to use basic impulses as an excuse for high level behaviour.

We're social creatures. Anyone who pretends like we're not by stripping social context from human interaction, reducing it to base moment to moment biology, is either a deeply stupid person, or they're trying to sell you on something bad.

No one (read: no one serious) pretends like people don't sometimes look at a teenager and get a base reaction.

The problem is these fucks, who at any mention of age of consent laws come out of the woodwork to justify fucking kids with “but everyone pops a boner at an inappropriate target sometimes”

I don't know what's happening with Tate these days, but he had at least two different podcasts.

Loser? How dare you. Wha' culuh is your Bu'atti?!

Honestly, allowing men this little agency in one's worldview is unironically misandrist.

“Look what you made us/them do” isn't a very convincing argument.

“They aren’t cardboard cutouts” yeah one's a sex trafficker and the other's bloody bonkers. What was the point again? xD

I'm mostly just baffled by invoking Tate and Peterson and expecting *anything* but ridicule on this here goddamn website.

This has to be a bit, right. You can't be real.

I've spent an unreasonable amount of time on the auction for it.

can be and often is*

In single-player rpgs, even really old ones, a bad build can and often is a difficulty modifier, but you can still faceroll through them with enough restarts.