Comment on Was Elvis Presley a pedo?
actionjbone@sh.itjust.works 9 months agoI can both agree with your statement AND assert with evidence that something is objectively bad. 🤣
Comment on Was Elvis Presley a pedo?
actionjbone@sh.itjust.works 9 months agoI can both agree with your statement AND assert with evidence that something is objectively bad. 🤣
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It wasn’t seen as harmful back then.
actionjbone@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
No, but it was harmful.
I’m talking about the objective harm of encouraging underage girls to avoid study and live their lives in the service of older men. There is nothing good that can be said about such a thing. It’s basically indentured servitude.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Ok, it wasn’t seen as relatively more harmful than anything else that would cause strain in a young person’s social, educational, and professional growth. Like an overinterest in sports or gambling or books.
actionjbone@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
I’m not talking about how it was seen. I’m talking about how it is. There’s a difference.
Cutting off hands was seen as socially acceptable at certain times in history, if someone was merely accused of theft. But it is horrific and terrible. How it was seen as irrelevant to it being terrible objectively terrible.