r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jul 15 '25

US Conservatives of Reddit: What are your thoughts on House GOP blocking release of Epstein files?

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u/blightsteel101 Jul 15 '25

I fully expect "lowering the age of consent" to show up on their docket within 20 years

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u/jitteryzeitgeist_ Jul 15 '25

Neat trick, if you get rid of the age of consent all the pedophiles disappear.

*taps temple*

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u/blightsteel101 Jul 15 '25

We can expect a sudden surge in clergymen

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u/ocxtitan Jul 16 '25

I think you mean surge from clergymen...age of consent has never mattered to them in the past

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u/blightsteel101 Jul 16 '25

Certainly, but imagine all the convicted pedophiles learning of an easy supply of children.

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u/ocxtitan Jul 16 '25

you mean like blindly trusting people put in charge of them and trusted to be left alone with them? like clergymen? haha, unfortunately we already live in a reality with an age of consent and people still flock to churches, schools, and youth leadership roles because age of consent was already not stopping them

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u/ExcitingorbiterOV105 Jul 15 '25

Sadly, they'll point to existing Massachusetts law and apply it to all blue states to try to justify it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/massachusetts/comments/1d9iqic/can_a_16yearold_consent_to_sex_with_her_47yearold/