BobDylan

They are splitting hairs and arguing in bad faith about distinctions about whether a few years either way makes any difference at all, in the law and the facts of an illegal, immoral, and unfair power imbalance between a child and an adult in a sexual situation. Period... Also, the fact that a man, including Epstein, prefers sex with girls close enough to legal consent age, at least in how they appear to onlookers, still makes them a creepy scumbag and a pedo, a criminal, and an adult man who has no business having sex with them. Those men are merely trying to look more respectable than they are, and to minimize or reduce their vulnerability to being condemned by the public and their peers..

Gotta love the Hannibal Lecter reference, macphysto...

Ah, but what or who do we eat, lol? Not into cannibalism...

I don't think it will be regulated well enough, if at all, and besides that, it will result in so many workers being replaced, that we will need a UBI to financially support the surplus workers in our economy, as well as replace their tax revenue, so I see a very dystopian, chaotic future with mass unemployment, starvation, and violence, along with totalitarian crackdown by the fed govt., to deal with the results of it all. Think something like Soylent Green.