So the 14 year old can consent to sex but can't he trusted to make good decisions with the resulting 10 million dollars until she's almost finished her bachelor's? What internal logic is this whole thing operating on?
What internal logic is this whole thing operating on?
You start at "I want to bang 14 year olds" and work backwards from there
honestly presenting ethical questions under capitalism in this way makes it abundantly clear why the marketplace is the enemy of humanity. if there is someone who has the means and intent to do something like this, the only acceptable answer is to kill them and redistribute their wealth. nothing else comes even remotely close to solving the problem.
Furniture and Meat
The adventure time episode that makes libertarians into communists
Let's say a billionaire wants to watch 456 poor people from Korea compete in winner-takes-all blood sports until only one participant is left, that winner receives ₩26.9B. All participants agree. Should this be allowed?
As long as the media reports on it by saying "this is literally what they do in the north" while it happens exclusively in the south.
Westoids do westoid shit in the west, westoidly: what are we, a bunch of asiatic chicoms???
People who should be legally incapable of giving sexual consent:
- Minors.
- Prisoners viz their guards.
- Anyone considering sleeping with a libertarian.
I AM FUCKING CACKLINGThe last one is really more of a catch-all, since most libertarians seem to only be attracted to the first category.
https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1720992936052306000
Link because I'm not a lib
He's president of this bullshit libertarian antiwoke think tank https://www.cspicenter.com/about
He is connected to university of Texas and his fellow think tankers are employed at university of London and Cornell among others. This seems like a slam dunk to flag a bunch of people in these august institutions and ruin this asshole's day 
Here is the staff page for where Rick is a fellow https://salemcenter.org/our-people/
The joys of these bozos inventing hypothetical scenarios that are extremely rare or outright don't happen
"I'll set you up for life if you just let me have sex with you" is coercion no matter the age. You can't consent to that, not when "no" isn't really an option.
Typical libertarian poll
Do you:
A. Be a pedophile
B. Be a pedophile
C. Be a pedophile
D. Be a pedophile
I've read about this happening in Philippines except its in hundreds or at best thousands of dollars and the girl's "consent" is never involved. Only parents.
::: spoiler Wretched of the Earth excerpt In its decadent aspect the national bourgeoisie gets considerable help from the Western bourgeoisies who happen to be tourists enamored of exoticism, hunting and casinos. The national bourgeoisie establishes holiday resorts and playgrounds for entertaining the Western bourgeoisie. This sector goes by the name of tourism and becomes a national industry for this very purpose. We only have to look at what has happened in Latin America if we want proof of the way the ex-colonized bourgeoisie can be transformed into "party" organizer. The casinos in Havana and Mexico City, the beaches of Rio, Copacabana, and Acapulco, the young Brazilian and Mexican girls, the thirteen-year-old mestizas, are the scars of this depravation of the national bourgeoisie. Because it is lacking in ideas, because it is inward-looking, cut off from the people, sapped by its congenital incapacity to evaluate issues on the basis of the nation as a whole, the national bourgeoisie assumes the role of manager for the companies of the West and turns its country virtually into a bordello for Europe.
Once again we need only to look at the pitiful spectacle of certain republics in Latin America. U.S. businessmen, banking magnates and technocrats jet "down to the tropics," and for a week to ten days wallow in the sweet depravity of their private "reserves." :::
empire didn't end it was just worked out to be cheaper to outsource colonial oppression to locals
well anyone willing to pimp their children for millions is probably desperate enough they'll go lower. That's just the free market
this logic is why the market is evil
They're trying to first legitimize the child sex-work/exploitation. Then, they can move on to "Who are we to tell the child how much she should accept? If we let the market work and the girl wants to accept 100k, or even just 1k, why should we prevent her from maximizing her utility?"
They're just trying to use big numbers to motivate the permissability in theory as a "gotcha, now you have to support child sex-work in general" argument. The correct response of course is to beat this person to death as an example.
They’re also using the big number because deep down they know that, as structured now, labour is exploited by capital. So they put the big number place holder in to appeal to people who would take a big dose of exploitation/trauma in order to have a life for free of that after the said event.
Sure thing! I didn't mean it as a correction but rather an exposition. Feeling grossed out by what's going on here is a perfectly acceptable reaction, but being able to explain it coherently and combat this rhetoric takes some training. Just trying to give comrades a chance to learn.
Should this be allowed
That a known pedophile should have been given free reign to keep sex trafficking and in fact be given so much power and wealth that he could even theoretically have done this? Yeah it's kinda fucked up that we let it happen.
"Okay so I invented this awesome gotcha that's totally gonna own the libs. It's like the trolley problem, right? But one of the tracks makes you a Professional Pedophile and the other one is just a trolley track with no issues. This is gonna get em"
I love that trolley problem where there's no one on the track and you are just asking if I would derail public transportation for no reason. It's so easy to answer!
Hmmm. This is a tough one.
I'm gonna go with..... kill Epstein again! I mean: "No, male." Final answer.
Count on creeps like that to constantly come up with elaborate scenarios where something horrible that they want to do is now okay. 
This is like 80% of anime, inventing contrived scenarios where incest, pedophilia, sexual assault, etc are not only fine but required by the situation
This is “nuanced” and “philosophical” to them.
I can't think of an anime series, no matter how 
, that hasn't at some point had someone on Hexbear making Thermian Arguments for how the show isn't condoning the hog slop being dished out to hogs, whether it's "because magical video game world rules, slavery this one time is okay and good actually" or "showing the JDF utterly obliterating a fantasy world with tacticool weapons and colonizing the fantasy world while at the same time militarily crushing every other rivaling military force in the contemporary world isn't actually advocating for Japanese nationalistic supremacy because reasons" or even "genocide is okay this one time because according to these Thermian Arguments the beings being genocided aren't intelligent and don't have feelings which is totally not an argument typically made by real life genocide enjoyers." 
it's really quite astounding the amount of sus shit that's in mainstream and critically acclaimed animes, some of which claim to be deconstructions of tropes and the genre, or parody/satire. Evangelion, Kill la Kill, Attack on Titan, Pokemon, Dragonball Z, One Piece, Sword Art Online, One Punch Man, Cowboy Bebop and others all pretty much do this (have scenes with pedophilic undertones, scantily clad young girl children, falling on top of someone to "accidentally" feel them up, 1000 year old dragons that look like kids, etc) so it's the "slop" and the "prestige" animes that both do this, prestige ones just have layers of irony
The anime tends to use bullshit excuses like "getting naked for special attacks is empowering actually which is why the camera and narrative focus is entirely on young women (or younger) getting naked for their special attacks" while having a predictably hog-heavy audience eating hog slop under the thin veil of excuses.
The overlap between Prestige TV and mainstream anime's fandom excuse generation is typically "it's not condoning a thing to put cinematic and narrative focus on it and emphasize it sensationalistically for entertainment purposes" sophistry.