I get a few sideways looks from people, for saying that pedophile offenders aren't that different from normal people - but that they made a choice to first indulge in a fantasy, and then to offend.
And there's a bit of a joke that I used to tell, just to fuck with people for laughs, but that kind of illustrates the point.
It goes like this: Most every man has been in love with a twelve year old...
...back when he was twelve.
Offending is a conscious choice. And this justifies punishment. 🫡
@YoMomz but the thing is, if one is a non-offending pedophile they need to never admit to it. Ever. As soon as it's known they think about children they will never be looked at the same way again, and it will become necessary to treat them differently and isolate them.
So even if they don't act on it, out of sheer pragmatism you have to treat them as if they might act on it if they admit to their degeneracy.
@ButtWorldsMan - no doubt.
My goal is to understand the phenomenon, because in order to solve a problem, one must understand the problem.
It's a common view, to see pedophiles as something that is born, rather than made. And this misunderstanding can lead to misguided and ineffective "solutions", that solve nothing.
It leads to a sort of guilt from birth too. If pedophiles breed more pedophiles, then babies will be born guilty - which is usually bullshit. 🍻
I find the whole pedo debate tiresome and riddled with dishonesty.
On the one hand it's become this dumb purity test for all sides - left, right, religious - where people just want to virtue signal and throw the pedo label at anyone for anything.
On the other hand there's no denying that we have a legit pedo problem, and getting worse. Most of it is downstream from 50+ years of a sustained, coordinated attack on the Western family.
@UncleIroh @YoMomz @ButtWorldsMan Indeed. Many efforts we see in western society have at their heart the explicit or implicit objective of the destruction of the family, which being the bedrock of all society, yields the destruction thereof.
@UncleIroh @YoMomz @ButtWorldsMan
Normalizing pedophilia, anti-natalism (whether via abortion,
intentional degradation of the mother figure as an object of aspiration for young females, or lies about equality between the sexes), destruction of the father figure as the strong, central figure of the family (whether through emasculation of males physically, socially (such as in media), or spiritually via religious teachings of the same stripe)
All of these have the same effect: societal death.
@DoubleD @YoMomz @ButtWorldsMan
Societal death as the overall effect? Yes, that's the macro result. The primary intended effect however is apathetic individualism.
One is a precondition for the other, & so this becomes a battle we all have to fight whether we want to or not.
I believe this is why all those attacks on 2017 Jordan Peterson went so hard. It was unrelenting because their greatest win is in making young men in particular unaware that this personal battle even exists.
@UncleIroh @YoMomz @ButtWorldsMan I'll agree with that. Young males being in the dark about the truth of the nature of the world and what upholds society and the order of their cosmos was at the least an intermediate goal towards the end goal of destruction of the civilization.
