People need to stop pretending "lol he consented to it" as if that's an excuse.
To me, it's on par with "hey twelve year old girl, stop getting groomed by perverts on the internet". Because Chris is more or less that exceptional.
lol, really? A 12yo girl now? What the fuck is this ever-shifting, endless stream of incredibly thin, over-stretched analogy's to absolve Chris from responsibility from his own decisions? I can barely keep up as the last incredibly thin, over-stretched Chris-absolving analogy breaks and the next incredibly thin, over-stretched Chris-absolving analogy gets hot-swapped in. It's positively dizzying.
First it was "Chris's DIY cartoon hedgehog /anime fantasys about being a superpowered teenaged Goddess are totes the same as a Catholic going to mass, or a Buddhist burning incense". Then it was "Chris is a hapless cult member, and the dumbfucks he met a few months back are the cult leaders... except the actual belief system of the 'cult' is stuff Chris has been cooking up, entirely by himself,
for himself, for 20-odd years...". Then it was "having a bunch of nutcase followers and rubberneckers after spending 10+ years actively chasing fame, proudly calling yourself 'a celebrity' and ordering around your 'loyal fanbase', etc means you're a 'gangstalking' Targetted Individual"...
And now it's come to this. "Chris is a 12yo girl, victimized by pedos", and "thinking a 36yo man is responsible for the decisions he makes = being a pedo apologist
(?!????!?!)"? Dude, seriously?
OK fine. I'll bite. A 12yo is a child. I have never, would never, will never said that an abused child is responsible for the decisions she makes, because the law, society, morality, and my personal opinion all say that a child's
isn't responsible for themselves- their parents are responsible for them. And that a child's decisions have limited validity, which is why a child's 'consent' is moot. Chris, on the other hand, insists that he
is an adult (he literally is), that he
can make his own decisions (he literally does), and that he
is capable of being responsible for himself (something you often say, too, in between lamenting the terrible, unreasonable pedo-apologists who expect Chris to be capable of being responsible for himself. But now you're saying he's not).
If Chris was consistently treated like a child, I'd be OK with that. If Chris was consistently treated like an adult, I'd be OK with that, too [He kinda is, and I kinda am. But you're saying he shouldn't be, so...]. But what
you're arguing for is for Chris to have the decision-making ability of an adult, but without having to take responsibility for those decisions, like a child. Which just isn't how it works- kids have no responsibility because they have parents who are ultimately left holding the ball. But who will take responsibility for Chris's decisions, if he doesn't? And adults get to use that decision-making power
because they're capable of being held responsible for those decisions. The decisions, and responsibility, are the two sides of the same coin. Adults have both. Kids have neither. But no-one has just one, without the other.
And yes, people get a bit of leeway for having legitimate mental illness, and Chris gets that in spades. But in the end there's only two, black or white options- You're either [1] a legally competent adult,
who gets to make their own decisions, and is responsible for those decisions. Or [2] not a legally competent adult, who avoids always having to take full responsibility for themselves,
but therefore doesn't have full capacity to make their own decisions (and this also requires someone who
can/will take responsibility for you- a parent, relative, institution, psych worker, etc).
You can't keep switching which of the two you're saying that Chris is; He can't be legally competent, and not, at the same time. He's either one or the other. And you can't magically remove someone's responsibility for themself, but not have someone to pass that responsibilty on to. Chris can't be Schrodinger's adult.
[Also, for the record, I don't dispute that Chris has faced an unreasonable amount of fucktards going to truly exceptional lengths to fuck with him in generally dumb, unfunny, overly intrusive ways, which reflect much worse on the 'trolls' than on Chris. And anyone still doing that shit these days unironically needs to stab themselves in the genitals for being a general embarrassment. I also don't dispute that Chris has legitimate, serious mental illness/impairment, and I genuinely sympathize. But as I said, in the end, you're either an adult, capable of being responsible for yourself, or you're not- And Chris has decided that he
is, so unless that changes, I have to respect that those are the rules he's choosing to play by. Also I've dealt closely IRL with enough people with severe mental illness, social dysfunction, etc to have learned the lesson extremely well: You can't help someone who isn't actually willing to be helped]
