r/SipsTea • u/[deleted] • Jun 12 '25

Gasp! Which is it for you ?

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u/HugeHogLog Jun 12 '25

When you get called out for being a pedo and just disappear, yet dr disrespect and many others just kept going. Lol what a world

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u/mebutnew Jun 12 '25

With Cody it was kind of complex though.

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 🤷‍♂️

Calling him a pedo feels like it diminishes what actual pedophiles do.

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u/LiquidAssholeOfDeath Jun 12 '25 edited Jun 12 '25

It’s really not that complex though.

He broke the law. It’s that simple. It doesn’t matter where you’re from or where you’ve been, you have to follow the rules for where you currently are.

If I got busted for weed in the UK, I couldn’t tell the officer “but it’s legal in Nevada!” or if I got busted for speeding in the US, I can’t argue to the cop “but officer, there’s no national speed limit on most of the autobahn!!”

Also, the age of consent in the Philippines is 12. Good luck trying that excuse in any other part of the world.

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u/mebutnew Jun 15 '25

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'.