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I know you’re getting down voted to oblivion but I know what idea you’re trying to get across. She was underage so at the very least it was statutory. But even if she wasn’t underage it was coerced and she was being manipulated to do something she likely didn’t want to do to pay for something she desperately needed. Now if she wasn’t underage it technically still was prostitution but significantly different than a rape if it was indeed consensual but who knows.
Illegal or not it was wrong and these douchebags can get away with anything which boils my backside.
It's fine, points and internet strangers don't matter as much as they'd like too. We can still have a nuanced discussion, you just need to ignore the people who feed off their internet addiction to outrage and thinking clicking a thumbs down on a keyboard fulfills their social duties. I didn't notice the underage part which is clearly problematic and changes the discussion and yes we need a society that discourages this type of behavior.
That happens, not a big deal but you can't really complain about internet outrage addicts and lack of nuance when you're the one who rushed into a thread without even taking enough time to properly understand the headline let alone read the article and immediately tried to correct someone who was objectively right.
Okay I'll be more careful next time. I don't spend a lot of time here and it's usually on the fly. I don't mind lurking more given how some people wrote like a five page rebuttal.
Put the phone down, go do something for someone you love dammit.
This is very true. Up and down doesn’t really lend itself to nuance does it?