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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
Wait, you were "thanking" people in the "Another Teacher Sex Scandal" who were arguing that we should hold up on calling a teacher a pervert after he was charged for sexual assaulting his 16 year old student.
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I thanked posts that said you were off the edge a little bit. I thought you made some good points, but you also made some bad posts in that thread (no offence).
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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
That isn't "spin". It's a relevant moral distinction - six year olds have no agency, 16 year olds have some. Agency, the ability to distinguish right from wrong and make a choice about how you're going to behave, obviously matters when assessing the right and wrong of a situation. The fact that you're even arguing something so completely uncontroversial... just... why? That's not a rhetorical question.
Ironically, attempting to bring up child rapists and dirty teachers in the context of a conversation about gun deaths is quintessential "spin".
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Maybe you should figure out what spin is.
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In public relations and politics, spin is a form of propaganda, achieved through providing a biased interpretation of an event or campaigning to persuade public opinion in favor or against some organization or public figure.
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"1300 kid deaths, but some are worse than others, so 1300 kids isn't accurate, because kids is too general and agency and maybe some were in gangs." = Spin
I'm not above it, so sure, call the comment about it being the same line used by child rapists and in teacher sex scandals "spin" but it's a true statement.
1300 kids is 1300 kids. Spin it however, but 1300 children aged 0-17 die every year. That seems like all you need to know.