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by victoro0 2471 days ago
Yes, because "pedophile" right now just means "horrible person", when it actually had a definition already - "person sexually attracted to prepubescent/pubescent children". And this makes it much harder to actually have a conversation about pedophilia and how to prevent pedophiles from hurting children and themselves.

So yes, this is a conversation much more worthwhile than whether Stallman is a bad person.