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But Linux is just kennel we need to look at all the gnu components that make Linux a complete os.... Wait maybe not https://drewdevault.com/2023/11/25/2023-11-26-RMS-on-sex.html
He's right that we shouldn't infantilise teenagers by calling them 'children', lumping them in with prepubescent children as if there's no difference between them.
Something that the society achieved in the last 150 years are two dogmas:
I'm kinda glad that questioning these puts one into a category of weirdos.