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I'm confused by that last sentence. It took a WILD swing out of right field. Are you saying your dad is attracted to barn animals, and you're accusing the other guy of that too?
He was using a saying. While I don't know what exactly he wanted to express with "barn door attitude", it is made clear through the context of its usage, that he disapproves of the over-simplistic and degrading "let's gruesomely kill all who are attracted to children" argument the guy above him made.
The only time I've heard "barn door" used in an idiom is "close the barn door after the horses ran away", to mean "it's too late"
so I guess OP means "you're saying it's too late for the ones who haven't acted on it"?
It might be a stretch, but it's all I've got.
I'm confused that anyone, anyone, would defend wanting to fuck, or outright fucking CHILDREN. And puberty is still childhood.
I'm not defending that. I just don't understand what he's talking about barn doors for. It came out of nowhere.
A "barn door attitude" is a idiom. I've only ever heard it to mean that you can't keep your opinions together and they're an open and paradoxical mess. Not sure what it means in other contexts.
Maybe “close the barn door after the horses ran away”, to mean “it’s too late”? It's the closest I've ever heard
so I guess OP means “you’re saying it’s too late for the ones who haven’t acted on it”?
It might be a stretch, but it’s all I’ve got.