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"If a pedophile had a time machine, and they went back in time to molest themselves as a child, should that be illegal?" Assume anyone can easily verify it is the same person using a time machine. (submitted by

@kevin_niceguy

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yes
82.1%
no
17.9%

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9:15 AM · Jan 1, 2023

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Isn’t this the plot of Looper?

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Now this is top tier Aella content

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TIL 80 Percent of people are wrong.

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Crap missed the right click : Yes it still should be illegal !

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Aella serving up that pure uncut Content

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Soon you're going to be asking about Leonard Church :P (...spoilers for web video series from 15 years ago, I guess :P )

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If ten year old me and 38 year old me were able to exist in the same time and space, then I think the functional result is that we would be two separate people for most moral and legal questions. It's not okay to beat or abuse a child just because of time travel weirdness.

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Shit i missclicked

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There seems to be an unspoken premise, that the child has the same level of understanding of consent/consequences/experiences as the adult, ie that they're the same person. But they aren't. It's Adult X molesting Child Y, not Adult X molesting smaller version of Adult X.