Yeah, I studied Heidegger. We had the nazi talk in class. The consensus was that his philosophy was not intertwined with his Nazism, but that’s not something Heidegger himself would have agreed with. My ex-girlfriend wrote her thesis on Heidegger and we talked about this all the time. In the end, and I’m not being…

To this and the ‘why 16' question...

Of course I do, I was there. I have good friends who were part of the movement to take Shakespeare out of the mandatory curriculum who also wrote theses on Heidegger.

Also, it’s a very bad song. 

I really do not believe that is true. I work for two powerful women and they do this exact same thing. And I’d say they’re generally very courteous and wonderful people for the level of success they’ve achieved. It’s a power thing, not a gender thing. 

Excellent story. Thank you for this. 

Reference to mom/son are very weird, but they aren’t grooming. Grooming is supposed to involve a long-term effort to sequester and isolate a person and build exclusive trust in you. Asking someone to leave a room so you can be alone with another person for an evening or whatever can be a perfectly innocent act -…

The story is, “she gave him alcohol to drink” and you read that as “she got him drunk”. But that’s not an accurate reading.

I know she gave them a drink but did she get him drunk? Is that somewhere in the story that I’m missing too? Does *no one* think it’s weird that people are re-telling this story with alleged facts that aren’t mentioned in any of the accounts?? “Gave him a drink” and “got him drunk” are two very different things. You…

The criminal law sanctions sexual acts for moral reasons - we condemn rape and so we criminalize it. No cognitive science can tell us what our moral position ought to be - science can tell us about how human brains develop and work, which might influence how we set moral lines, but science itself does not establish…

That’s not a good inference. People are advised all the time to simply pay settlement amounts if the press of a public trial or dispute would be more costly. It’s a not irregular tactic. But that doesn’t mean this is one of those cases. 

I appreciate your apology - rare for someone to be so considerate in a comments forum and I’m thankful.

I mean it seems like I’ve been pretty clear about that. I think the line should be 16 and I think Asia is receiving too much scorn for this. 

Also, if you feel very strongly about 18 being the right line, you should probably go lobby your state legislator (not congress...that’s federal, wrong forum dude - learn how the country works).

This is the comments section of a blog. It is literally solely filled with people’s personal opinions on things they aren’t involved in. 

Yeah I agree. I was wrong. California line is 18. I’ve said that a bunch.

And, like most humans, I have lots of opinions on where the law is right or wrong. I’m not going to become an activist lobbying on every one of them. No one does. 

You’re having a hard time with reading. I agree it’s a crime, I am not trying to waive that away. I am arguing it shouldn’t be criminal.

The only part of that that sounds like grooming is the result that he felt she was a mentor. But that’s not a description of any action she took, it’s just a characterization his lawyer made in the demand for settlement. I’m not saying it’s incorrect, I’m saying it’s not a description of any grooming activity.…

Uh, no. I also had partners my own age? What’s with the personal attacks here?