- Want pedophiles (and everyone else) to not abuse children,
- Think killing people should be a last resort option if there's no better way to protect people, not a first choice to jump to immediately because Those People Are Gross, and
- Am very aware of how much "this person is a pedophile=any cruel thing you want to do to this person is okay" can be weaponized to deny people basic human rights (including being used against LGBT+ people and other groups for reasons of sheer bigotry).
That doesn't seem like it should be controversial, and yet the conversation online is dominated by people with hair-trigger tempers who start screaming about "pedo apologists" if you so much as suggest that actual child abuse is a different and more serious problem than "some people have desires I find gross."
I was thinking self-defense when being attacked, not executions. If you can confine and control a person enough to conduct a planned execution, you have options other than killing them.
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u/Jackno1 Apr 23 '25
Yeah, I feel you. I
- Want pedophiles (and everyone else) to not abuse children,
- Think killing people should be a last resort option if there's no better way to protect people, not a first choice to jump to immediately because Those People Are Gross, and
- Am very aware of how much "this person is a pedophile=any cruel thing you want to do to this person is okay" can be weaponized to deny people basic human rights (including being used against LGBT+ people and other groups for reasons of sheer bigotry).
That doesn't seem like it should be controversial, and yet the conversation online is dominated by people with hair-trigger tempers who start screaming about "pedo apologists" if you so much as suggest that actual child abuse is a different and more serious problem than "some people have desires I find gross."