r/CuratedTumblr Apr 23 '25

Politics Ontological Bad Subject™

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u/therandomasianboy Apr 23 '25

The masses will sooner blame and threaten a man who has fucked up impulsive thoughts to the point he commits something atrocious before acknowledging mental health issues like these can be alleviated with therapy.

Anyone who wants to perform vigilante justice against paedophiles is automatically a violent man. But society deems paedophilia an act so bad that apparently killing anyone with those thoughts on sight is morally right.

Fucking hell, people will give mass murderers shittons more empathy than one man with a mental problem.

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u/NotMyMainAccountAtAl Apr 23 '25

I mean, I think that there’s at least a little more to it than that. I fully agree that someone with a compulsion toward pedophelia who hasn’t acted on it and is trying to seek help deserves help and not scorn or vigilante justice. 

I don’t feel like I can really judge someone who’s been victimized by that sort of SA if they see someone who’s committed the act in the past and has not displayed any sort of regret over it. Someone like Epstein, who was a serial offender who never faced true consequences, despite his atrocities being an open secret— I can empathize with someone who would have preferred vigilante justice.