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Megyn Kelly questions whether Jeffrey Epstein's desire for “very young teen types” made him a pedophile
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Technically true. Pedophelia is about a lack of bodily development of primary sexual markers. As soon as the kids develop any kind of puberty, the pedophiles interest is over. The next phase is as bad as the teens think they are able to consent, but not really. You could even argue that does not change just because they are 18+. But that's the law.
I would argue Epstein probably didn't peddle actual kiddie porn cisam type of business but more the kind of power fantasy that you are rich enough to break the law without consequence and enjoy those carnal instincts that nature gave you and society doesn't deem respectable or legal for the reasons given above. And the great thing about that fantasy is that you can trap people very efficiently and then broker the control over high value targets to other nations. And that's probably how Trump and Putin met. Putin went shopping for a future president he can blackmail into anything. And the rest is history.
Killing Epstein was probably not about him exposing powerful people but costing even more powerful people their expensive remote controlled politicians.
You have to draw the line somewhere. Or you start getting into telling people what they can do. There is no magic age and older people well always think younger people are stupid and younger people well always think they know more.
Exactly, that's why the magic line is at 18 and personallyiI think we need the half your age plus minus 7 rule. And being a dad of a soon to be teen daughter I'm all for 18+ before she starts getting active.
I want to add that Trump was likely already a CIA asset through his association with Roy Cohn, which would only make him more valuable