(June 18, 2015 at 3:38 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(June 18, 2015 at 3:25 am)Parkers Tan Wrote: Do you approve of raping 13-year-old boys? Do you think it's more moral than raping 10-year-old boys?
Sorry that my hair-splitter is in the shop for sharpening. You'll need to distinguish the moral differences of the two acts, and you'll need to explain why you regard that difference as meaningful.
This entire "it wasn't pedophilia, raping adolescents is called hebephilia" entirely dodges the point that priests fucking young boys is a betrayal of the morality those priests are charged with exemplifying.
You're retreating to semantics because you know you've already lost the moral battle. Don't think you're fooling anyone here ... but in case you do think that, I will make sure to disabuse you of that notion.
To be fair, Randy has repeated multiple times already that the abuse was very wrong and that those priests should face criminal charges.
I don't think his point is that it's any less immoral.
His aim is to dodge the point by appealing to fine distinctions which don't mean jack-shit to those victimized.
If raping teens is not equally immoral, then he needs to answer why that is. And if it is equally immoral, then he needs to quit trying to muddy the waters.
