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While I am happy that people condemn pedophiles and pedophilia, I feel as though this condemnation of pedophiles is going far beyond getting justice and making children safer and turning into an all out witch hunt.
Every time someone is accused of pedophilia, people call for him to be castrated/killed. It's even to the point to where taxpayer dollars go into separating pedos from the rest of the prison population during his "rehillibitation." I've heard people argue that someone being attracted to children is a genetic predisposition. If that's the case, is this really the right approach to preventing this atrocity from occurring? Or is there a better way to approaching the act that doesn't make the U.S society damn near ready for a witch hunt?
I'm very concerned about the latter because if one person is wrongfully accused and something bad happens to him anyway, it's not very different from the people wrongfully accused and killed for witchcraft in Salem centuries ago. Can this fear turn into sheer irrationality in the future? Or has it already?
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2014-04-19, 09:20 PM #1The Unstoppable Force
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In the 1600s it was witches, in 2014, it's pedophiles.
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2014-04-19, 09:23 PM #2Stood in the Fire
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Pedophilia is fine as long as no children are harmed. The same with witchcraft.
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2014-04-19, 09:23 PM #3Mechagnome
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This thread will go places.
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2014-04-19, 09:29 PM #4The Lightbringer
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I do feel sorry for them to a certain extent. At least they have drawn depictions of that they can bust their rocks on and they can't be thrown in jail for that.
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2014-04-19, 09:32 PM #5Deleted
I won't even bother joining the discussion because I will just be banned for "Arguing in favor of pedophilia and child porn" like the last time we had a thread about this.
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2014-04-19, 09:33 PM #6The Insane
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Maybe you should just choose your words more carefully? Originally Posted by turskanaattori
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2014-04-19, 09:33 PM #7I Don't Work Here
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One is a case of an act that is explicitly harmful to children.
The other is hatred and violence directed against innocents, either to attack them personally, or to attack them because they don't share your faith.
These are not in any way comparable, and as such, this thread isn't going to go anywhere useful.
