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Affairs are wrong, but they are not illegal.

> if you create enough value, you get to ignore things like "rules", "laws" and "common sense".

Hmm... I wonder why that is. Could it be because a bunch of CEOs, prominent politicians, and business people were found to have taken multiple trips to an island where the had sex with children and nothing happened to them? No, it couldn't possibly be that. I'm sick of the pearl clutching against a man who had consensual relationships with adult women his own age, while we excuse pedophilia.

> I'm sick of the pearl clutching against a man who had consensual relationships with adult women his own age,

Do we have evidence that his legally-recognized other half consented to these relationships? If so, fine. That still doesn't remove the problems with those relationships, like the possibility of Alice Huang being a PRC intelligence asset, or the fact that one of the affairs was with a company employee, which can, in a roundabout way, place potential penalties on her career if she doesn't consent.

>while we excuse pedophilia.

Excuse me, where the f*ck did I excuse pedophilia???

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