After LGBT...is the next letter to be added to the alphabet soup a P?
EDITS: Words on the street says that he lied and actually touched a little girl. http://louderwithcrowder.com/salon-com-pedophile-calls-me-out-but-now-ive-dug-into-his-past/#.V0RjSxmp7qA
Am I supposed to upvote?
It's disgusting I know but what I understand of upvoting is if you believe this is news worthy and more people need to know what's being pushed into our culture as normal then yes...you should upvote.
I wanted to upvote this because it is important people see this stuff.
We really are living in a quickly changing world and I am not so sure I like many of these changes...
when I see this stuff...I feel conservative.
Not the world is changing more quickly, you just get to see more of it.
In ancient times pederasty was completely normal (wiki). It wasn't even about sexual attraction, just a social standard.
Yes, people need to see things like that. My reason to argue so is completely different to yours though:
Paedophilia is one thing. @arhag explained it pretty well below.
But child abuse is something different mostly. Only 2-10% of child molesters are pedophiles. The rest are people that usually are attracted to adults, but come to abuse a child because the situation allowed it. Family members in most cases, but also persons of trust like teachers and priests. THOSE are the real problem, not the ones who know and actively think about what's going on with them. You should be glad about those.
This will likely be highly controversial and a bad strategy for me, but screw it I will post it anyway.
That is ridiculous. Yes, pedophilia is a sexual orientation that the person does not choose (like LGB), but that is where the similarities end.
Pedophiles acting out their desires on little children will never be accepted by society, because children cannot give consent. I actually agree that a pedophile who has not abused any children isn't a monster. Their situation is very unfortunate, and I actually feel bad for them that life has dealt them such a crappy deal. That is because they did not and could not choose their orientation (similar to how homosexuals cannot choose their orientation). Just think: considering how despised pedophiles are by society, if they actually could choose their orientation, why the hell wouldn't they change it to something that is acceptable to society?
What they can choose, however, is what actions they do in response to their unchangeable orientation and desires. Any pedophile who actually acts on their desires is a monster that deserves society's hatred and should be punished to the full extent of the law. But I don't think it is fair to hate a pedophile who has done a good job controlling their urges and has never abused children. That said, I totally understand not trusting them around your kids, because that is just playing with fire.
Finally, I want to end this comment with a hypothetical philosophical question, which further shows the huge disparity between pedophilia and LGB (and many other sexual orientations). What if in the future there existed some technology that actually rewired a person's brain so that they remained the exact same person except that their sexual orientation was changed to something else? I think there comes some point where the technology is deemed safe and reliable enough that society can morally demand that pedophiles use the machine to change their sexual orientation to something less problematic to society (assuming they didn't just voluntarily do it themselves long ago to make their life easier). However, I do not think it would be moral for society to demand the same of homosexuals, bisexuals, pansexuals, asexuals, etc., because their actions do not harm others (assuming their sexual acts are all with consenting adults of course).
Arhag, I wish the world was like you say... But there are some truly shameful beliefs out there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_children#Marriage
What are the chances that Salon are trying to condition people to not get mad about the inevitable sharia courts in the USA with all the immigration and refugees coming in? I think they're pretty good...
That is a valid point. Perhaps it was too strong of a statement for me to say "Pedophiles acting out their desires on little children will never be accepted by society" considering that there exists large subsets of global society in the present day who apparently tolerate it. : (
But I still stand by the statement that it is very unlikely that western society will ever tolerate sexual abuse of children in their own jurisdiction. At least, I hope so.
I think this is bordering on conspiracy theory and I don't agree that it is what is actually happening in this case. But I sure do have a problem with the fact that many so-called liberals seem to no longer stand up for liberal principles for the sake of political correctness. And though I would describe myself as a descriptive and meta-ethical moral relativist, I am certainly not a normative moral relativist, and I think it is a very bad idea to give leeway to proselytization of dangerous ideas through self-censorship of counter-arguments simply because those dangerous ideas are held by a person who is a member of an underprivileged or disadvantaged group.
If western civilization keep on embracing moral relativism, without any standards to objectively define right from wrong...I dont think its that far fetch 10 or 15 years down the road. Especially when news outlet have resident pedophiles.
Pretty much near 0. Seriously, the fear of sharia law emerging in the west is just silly. Even in (most countries with a muslim majority it's not practiced)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_of_sharia_law_by_country#Sharia_in_the_world]
There is over 100 sharia courts in the UK and many more underground.
That's more like mediation for those who want it, in civil cases, without means to enforce their rulings. Not to be mixed up with cut off limbs and stonings.
I know that many character traits are passed down through the generations via DNA. I wonder if pedophilia is a character trait that finds its way into peoples DNA through ancestral experiences. I know this guy is heterosexual but suppose his great great great grandpa was a hetero-catholic priest (most pedophile catholic priests are homo-sexual) and his attraction for little girls carried over to his great great great grandson's DNA.
Thanks for posting this.
I can understand why you did your little joke about the letters, but even in the link you posted, that guy is a heterosexual pedophile, so that kind of blows that one out the water.
I have a child and I would rather all pedophiles were like this guy, he's honest and he doesn't act out on his fantasies, so we know who he is and where he is. I'd much rather that, than some 'respectable' member of the community, hiding behind said respectability so that they can abuse children.
I think if therapy doesn't work, then chemical castration is the only thing that will give him and others like him peace.
I agree with your view.
Words on the street is that he already acted on it.. http://louderwithcrowder.com/salon-com-pedophile-calls-me-out-but-now-ive-dug-into-his-past/#.V0RjSxmp7qA
Edit: And Trannies are not necessarily gay...so LGBT is only a group of people with a set of value related to sexual orientation and/or sexual identity.
I stand corrected, re LGBT and don't get me wrong, I think the guy's predelictions are horrible and I think chemical castration, until we can find another way is the best solution. However the only way we can chemically castrate, is if people either get caught red-handed, in which case, human rights, blah, blah, blah.
Or they "come out" like this guy, if they truly don't want to offend, then they'll volunteer; don't they already have a similar program going on in the States?
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Words on the street are presenting a screenshot of a post where he says he brushes her hair, and in the same sentences demand a bullet for the guy.
The blogger starts his entry with "Being Conservative is literally viewed as more offensive than the fondling of children". I'd tell him that it's not the being conservative, but the disregard for basic human rights and disrespect for anything that doesn't fit into his narrow view of the world. But he wouldn't understand.
He is a pedophile who babysit a five years old and relieves himself in the bathroom...and we must all cheer him for not "acting" on it? wtf.
Some people are screwed up and they should be call out on it...not given a megaphone. And I agree with him:
No
For what purpose? It doesn't serve anyone.
Besides that the article itself utilizes the false claim that brushing her hair would be comparable to touching her sexually (seriously, that thing is worse than shit. the guy is just ranting. how can you "inform" yourself with sources like that? The article on salon contains some real information. You may not like it, you may not be interested in him and how a life like this looks from the inside, but others certainly do because they like to make informed decisions before they form their opinion): I don't put myself in the position to deny others the right to live. Violating that basic right would make me worse than the perpetrator, and I would have to keep living with it. And I'm glad the civilized world realized that and abolished death penalties.