People can't help who they're attracted to. There's been a distressing amount of effort put into making people do that, and it never works. You can shock them, you can hit them, you can tell them to read books about how awful they are, all that winds up happening, even if the person in question agrees, is psychological trauma.
Thinking gross things does not mean they happen. It does not mean the consequences of those actions happen. Indeed, statistics show the VAST majority of people attracted to minors have never, and do never, actually touch kids.
In my experience in Law Enforcement I found that there are PDFs everywhere. Like, it's a not-statistically-insignificant fraction of the population. The vast majority of them never did anything to hurt anybody. 90% of the cases that WERE illegal and not just a massive waste of LEO time and resources, the perpetrator was calm, compliant, and generally very well-behaved. Indeed, I preferred working with them if I had jail duty. This was the military, so most of the time if you had someone in legal trouble they were belligerent and aggressive, if not necessarily violent.
I don't think people should go to jail for jorkin' it to the wrong thing. I don't think people should go to jail at all if they haven't hurt anyone. I don't think it's fair to just assume someone is a threat because they like something you think is gross. I think people need to be more understanding of others.
And I think we shouldn't purposefully exclude segments of the population and shun them because of something they can't help, because that's a quick way to send them down the alt-right pipeline to become a nazi. Nazis actually DO hurt people. And they're the way they are almost always because someone hurt them first.
Gen Z seems to think anyone who has jerked off to porn is a porn addict 100% of the time and if you try to call them out for this they call you a gooner. Iām starting to believe our sexual health is fucked
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u/Karnewarrior Mar 11 '25
Look.
People can't help who they're attracted to. There's been a distressing amount of effort put into making people do that, and it never works. You can shock them, you can hit them, you can tell them to read books about how awful they are, all that winds up happening, even if the person in question agrees, is psychological trauma.
Thinking gross things does not mean they happen. It does not mean the consequences of those actions happen. Indeed, statistics show the VAST majority of people attracted to minors have never, and do never, actually touch kids.
In my experience in Law Enforcement I found that there are PDFs everywhere. Like, it's a not-statistically-insignificant fraction of the population. The vast majority of them never did anything to hurt anybody. 90% of the cases that WERE illegal and not just a massive waste of LEO time and resources, the perpetrator was calm, compliant, and generally very well-behaved. Indeed, I preferred working with them if I had jail duty. This was the military, so most of the time if you had someone in legal trouble they were belligerent and aggressive, if not necessarily violent.
I don't think people should go to jail for jorkin' it to the wrong thing. I don't think people should go to jail at all if they haven't hurt anyone. I don't think it's fair to just assume someone is a threat because they like something you think is gross. I think people need to be more understanding of others.
And I think we shouldn't purposefully exclude segments of the population and shun them because of something they can't help, because that's a quick way to send them down the alt-right pipeline to become a nazi. Nazis actually DO hurt people. And they're the way they are almost always because someone hurt them first.