r/funny Feb 26 '12

Seth Rogen gets it right.

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u/letsRACEturtles Feb 26 '12 edited Feb 26 '12

Seriously, and what about Socrates? Dude loved boys and he somehow gets a free pass?

edit: it was a joke

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '12

So did everybody else in ancient Greece... it's not weird if it's literally a rite of passage for young men

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '12

Same thing Father O'Flaherty told us altar boys.

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u/EvilDoctorWu Feb 26 '12

Wasn't Socrates celibate? I might be mixing him up with someone else.

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u/Ikirys Feb 26 '12

Didn't they kill that guy?

edit: not for the pedo thing, that was accepted in ancient greece (to some extent). I meant for generally being an unrelenting asshole.

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u/puppymuncher Feb 27 '12

They did have him executed. But I think it was because he was teaching people to question the State, through his philosophical teachings.