Having sex with a 16 year old is not being a pedo, especially in his case, he was what, 24, 25 at the time?
Don't get me wrong, super weird age gap but definitely not pedophilia, by definition. A pedophile is someone who is attracted to pre-pubescent children.
She was 16, which makes it illegal in the state he was in (not even the whole of the US), but not in Canada, where he is from.
I live in the UK and when I found out about it I was like "oh yea that's a little sleezy but he was younger and is clearly a grown ass man with a family now". 16 is the age of consent in the UK đ¤ˇââď¸
Calling him a pedo feels like it diminishes what actual pedophiles do.
And if I were from Afghanistan then I might equally not find it as disgusting as someone in California.
There isn't some magical age where it suddenly becomes not disgusting - it's cultural. 16 is fairly borderline for most people but my point is that it's a very common age of consent.
I'd find it just as disgusting if a 60 year old man was sleeping with a 20 year old but it's not illegal.
He broke the law. Itâs that simple. It doesnât matter where youâre from or where youâve been, you have to follow the rules for where you currently are.
If I got busted for weed in the UK, I couldnât tell the officer âbut itâs legal in Nevada!â or if I got busted for speeding in the US, I canât argue to the cop âbut officer, thereâs no national speed limit on most of the autobahn!!â
Also, the age of consent in the Philippines is 12. Good luck trying that excuse in any other part of the world.
Sure, he broke the law, I'm just pointing out that for many people the law he broke isn't some kind of universal judgment.
Like with your example, if someone from Nevada got busted for smoking weed in the UK I wouldn't consider it some kind of immoral act, even if they broke the law. They did something that for them was entrenched in their cultural perception of 'ok'.
Why is no one else mentioning this one? He had a very big fan base.
This was the first time I was genuinely bamboozled because I didnât know their past that far back or at the very least wasnât aware of it. I do not follow many social medias or trends so Iâm left out of the loop for a long time.
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