whew

@enigma @mana Please ban Demarini everyone will be better off
edit: tysm

not only is nick amazing at tf2 (on basically every class) but he has a great attitude as well. you're guaranteed to have a good time if you're playing with him. one of my favorite people who i've been on a team with despite the short time we played together.

This was really exciting news to wake up to! I just hope ESEA doesn't kill my invite dreams.

if tf2 died, i would be able to spend a lot more time trying to get better at cs:go. if esea sacks invite that's probably what i'm going to do after this season

paid mods aren't a bad idea. this probably could've gone a lot better if there was some kind of quality control for the mods and most of the profit went to the mod developers.

noooo ;_;

I want to know what type of person sends letters like that.

i can't take this my heart is #20broken ;_;

lol okay screwball keep trying to convince yourself that it's okay to rape children because its "the norm". (by the way, it's not also i hope u get institutionalized because youre delusional)

I didn't really want to get into this discussion because it kind of upsets me, but I guess I should've elaborated more. To answer your question, I Canada's laws are a good baseline as far as age of consent laws go. (http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/other-autre/clp/faq.html).
Yes I'm generalizing, but I feel like in this situation it's much better to err on the side of caution, especially when it's children's lives and wellbeings at stake.
Keep in mind, things like lynching, beating your wife, and yes, marrying a 13 year old were legally acceptable not too long ago. Today, there's no legal grey area there.

I'm not assuming pedophilia is rape. I gave multiple sourced justifications as to why children cannot consent to sexual activity. It's literally at the top of the post, I encourage you to reread it. The only "logical leap" I made was that the seizure of someone's autonomy by another is not morally correct, which I'm assuming is pretty well accepted by everyone. The train of thought is such: Taking away someone's bodily autonomy is wrong. Rape is a violation of someone's bodily autonomy because the victim has not consented. A child cannot consent to sexual activity with an adult(for the reasons I mentioned in my last post). Therefore, sexual activity between an adult and a child is a violation of the victim's bodily autonomy.

You're right. In my opinion, pedophilia (even without acting on it) is morally wrong because it creates a market for child pornography and child sex slavery (which is bad for reasons I previously mentioned). But I don't really want to get into that discussion.

I said why homosexuality is different than pedophilia at the bottom of my post. To summarize, the distinction is the ability to consent.

I can't believe I'm justifying not raping kids through a nerdessay on a video game forum but since you asked, I'll oblige.

First off, children can't consent to sexual activity. A lot of reasons they can't consent to sexual activity are the same reasons why kids can't sign contracts, why child labor is illegal, and why there's an age restriction on alcohol and driving. Laws are morally arbitrary, so let's get to the reason why these laws are in place.

-Compliance isn't consent. Children are socialized to think that adults know what's best for them. However many reservations a kid might have about getting raped, more often than not they'll blindly trust the adult who tries to harm them because they blindly trust adults on a daily basis. This is also the reason why Romeo & Juliet clauses exist. It's much easier for an older person to take advantage of a younger person. Furthermore, this is the reason why teachers could be fired for being in a relationship with an 18 year old student. The teacher(adult) is in a position of authority over the student(child). In fact, most children are abused at the hands of someone close to them, such as a guardian or family friend. (http://www.childrefuge.org/child-molestation/intra-familial-molestation.html)
-Scientifically, their brains aren't fully developed yet. Up until a certain point in brain development, kids are unable to see the consequences of their actions. This is also why you would sentence a minor differently than a legal adult.
(http://thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/i/i_09/i_09_p/i_09_p_dev/i_09_p_dev.html)

In a nutshell, sexual relationships between children and adults are exploitative.

I think that the point of major contention would be whether children can consent or not, but if that's not enough, here's a couple reasons why people shouldn't fuck kids.

Legally: Kids can't consent. You can't legally fuck a kid for the same reason you can't fuck a dog, or ya know, rape someone. Because it's rape. If you disagree with this you're a dangerous person and should probably castrate yourself asap.

Ethically: Pedophilia has psychological repurcussions for the victim. Again, pedophilia is rape and rape fucks someone up in the head. It's morally reprehensible to psychologically damage someone for life so you can get off. Furthermore, pedophiles groom kids to normalize abusive relationships. Abusive relationships are bad for reasons I shouldn't have to explain.

This is different from a consenting homosexual relationship between two adults. The key word is consenting. Provided all parties consent, homosexual relationships are no different than heterosexual relationships.

ha ha funny comparing an extremely damaging mental illness to a class in a video game nice one :) :) :)

i have no sympathy for someone who's attracted to children and it's fucked up if you do honestly
pedophilia is the single most disgusting thing that exists