It doesn’t have to be!
“?” in a URL often means “Delete from the ‘?’ until the end to avoid garbage”
Lemmy.ca defaults to: https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/d751342c-5d83-4a5e-9b6b-9817e03db780.jpeg
But if you’re on .world, you can do a little snip and things still work:
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/5441af5c-19cd-4ffb-aad8-94da9ea361a9.jpeg
It is rape. Children are not able to consent.
What makes the rape of a child seen as worse as the rape of an adult, is that children are vulnerable in every sense of the word; physically, emotionally, financially, and sexually.
Everyone has been a child so they are able to empathize, and we are “programmed” to want to protect them.