KIDIST Paulos Asrat considers the reaction by the atheist Alt-Right figure Richard Spencer to the Milo Yiannapoulos case. She wonders what grounds Spencer has for being scandalized by Milo’s controversial remarks. If God does not exist, she asks,

Why is pedophilia immoral? What is wrong with loving little children? After all pedophiles can argue that their behavior is a form of love. Unless it is a “rapist pedophile,” most pedophiles are attracted to one (or two or three) children and maintain long term interactions with them. The young children become attached to them.

Legally society can decided that having sex with five-year-old children (who can say “yes” and “no,” and make decisions) is perfectly acceptable and that it is not a crime.

In a related post at The Orthosphere, Kristor writes that individuals who don’t believe in objective moral truth are prone to political rage:

[W]hen the First Principle of your moral system is that there is no objective moral reality – that there is no moral system to begin with – any hint of a suggestion that there is in fact a moral reality is going to seem to you utterly arbitrary, illegitimate, selfish, tyrannical and … unjust. It is going to seem delusional, and so – being mad, ergo immune to reasoning – extremely dangerous. Quite naturally, then, you will react to any such suggestion with outrage. For, any such suggestion will constitute a radical, mortal challenge to your entire moral calculus, your whole schedule of preferences and desires. Such a suggestion cannot but be interpreted as an implicit attack upon your own personal existence – as a bid to name you the scapegoat, fit only for ejection beyond the pale, banishment, bewilderment, solitude, death. And because any such suggestion must (under the terms of your moral understanding) be taken as entirely unjustified by any possible appeal to reality, it cannot but seem deeply wrong.

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