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I am getting very tired of blanket moral rules which ignore consent, as well as swift rushes to condemn. Much of it smells like moral performing, more than conviction and is "performative". Told what is right/wrong, paroting it.

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The specifics of individual situations matter, and while there are red lines like "don't rape", there are also rules that should be guidelines. Even within harmful situations there are gradations. Weinstein and CK Louis both did bad things. One is much worse.

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I'm also noticing a desire to effectively increase the age of ability to make consent to 30 or so. Fuck that, as someone who remembers being a teenager. Your milk fed veal kids never learned to make any judgment calls because you never let them.

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Seriously? 30? Is it the 1950s?

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I vaguely remember seeing some TV recordings of condescending 50-60 somethings calling ~30 year olds youths in the 70s, but damn.

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Eh, in the 70s that actually wasn't the attitude. You were an adult when you moved out, and that could be 16. Old enough to remember.

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Might have been the 60s. Equally probable since the guys were hippies. But I guess what being an adult means has also changed.

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That e.g. someone my age can tell someone your age to fuck off without risking censure seems a recent invention in most parts of the world.

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oh sure, but that's not about being an adult, that's about respect for age. Different things.

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Mmh, but there's an implied hierarchy of less-more adult there. Weird to me anyway; Norway has been moving away from that for many generations.

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Adult when I was growing up mean "takes on adult responsibilities". That's all.

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people who are old, are assumed worthy of respect because they have seen/done more than you have. It's about respect due experience.

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