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That poll question has got to be one of the the most duckbear non sequiturs ever.
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Doctor Foxx posted...

Why would the corporation Google be any more trustworthy with this than any other ISP?

Most notably, in the areas where Google Fiber has been operating, other ISP's have provided similar speeds for similar costs, exposing the reality that they've been deliberately throttling their speeds so they can charge more for minor incremental upgrades, rather than for any technical reasons. Google's certainly done their share of shady business, but as far as their track record as an ISP goes, they've generally been less eager to rip consumers off than others, which is unfortunately pretty rare and commendable in the telecom world. That's a field where collusion to avoid legitimate competition is the norm, and Google bucked that trend.

Mostly, though, it's hard to be any less trustworthy than the major ISP's.
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Not realistically. They could probably bring it to every larger city, but rural internet users would end up suffering horribly as other ISP's gouged them in an effort to cover the costs of legitimately competing with Google. Bringing Google Fiber to the entire country would be a massive undertaking, even for Google.
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Dreaming_King posted...

What is a friend but a like minded equal? I have been frustrated by the lack of such persons, so now I'm considering making it a point to seek them out.

A bit of advice: Start by saying "I'm looking for more friends," rather than "I'm forming a guild, apply here." The latter's just weird.
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Dreaming_King posted...

Right, although the internet is a better place to look than the place I live in.

Doesn't matter. Your premise is that you need to form this "guild" because you can't find anyone like you, but that premise is fundamentally flawed because you need to find people like you in order to populate it. The Internet probably is a better place to look, but that means it's also a better place to look for just plain friends, with none of this weird plan that sounds like some kind of larping cult.
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Dreaming_King posted...

I'm so tired of having to deal with the common rabble day in and day out, not encountering a soul who is anywhere near my wavelength

You'd still have to find those like-minded people to put together this "guild," so you're kind of back to square one.
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helIy posted...

>no restrictions
>hand waves away the restrictions

They can indeed be discounted when there's a plausible way to work around them.
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helIy posted...

that post was pointless since you literally further elaborated on what i already said

I'm not even sure what you're trying to say. It's true that you can play any Xbone game on an Xbone, much like you can play any PC game on a PC, but that's a pretty meaningless statement in a discussion of backwards compatibility. It's not at all true that you can play prior generations of Xbox games on the Xbone without restrictions, while it is true that you can play prior generations of PC games without restrictions (until you get really far back, at which point you can still make it work, unlike with consoles).
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Zeus posted...

adjl posted...

I love his completely dumbfounded stare, like he can't even begin to comprehend that being sworn in on a bible was a matter of exercising religious freedom instead of being mandatory for everyone.

I think that's just his normal look.

It is, but I'm more noticing the stunned silence that accompanied it. Awkwardly enormous periods of silence probably aren't a normal part of conversations for him, especially while working as a spokesperson.
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helIy posted...

console and handheld emulation doesn't count on PC

Who said anything about emulation? Don't have to emulate anything. All you have to do is turn on an old game, once you get past the mid-90's or so and you don't run into stuff that's incompatible with more modern operating systems (and even then, you can usually get stuff working with some fiddling).
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helIy posted...

how's backwards compatibility working there for ya

I always laugh when console peasants try to argue about who has the best backwards compatibility.
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I love his completely dumbfounded stare, like he can't even begin to comprehend that being sworn in on a bible was a matter of exercising religious freedom instead of being mandatory for everyone.
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Yeah, I know. They also used to autoflag literally any instance of "homo," whether it was used as part of another word or not. That got annoying.
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Zangulus posted...

Cock also refers to a rooster.

The other doesnt have a non offensive definition.

So...

What really is stupid is penis and clit.

Well, shit. They fixed that one. Nice.

"Clit" still auto-censors, if that's on. It's no longer banned, but it's still considered oddly offensive for being just a truncation of the anatomical term. But then double standards for societal attitudes toward male and female genitals are nothing new.
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"Cock" is pretty much just used as slang for willies* (and chickens and stuff, obviously), whereas "c***" is used as a particularly vicious insult (in the US, at least. It's quite a bit more mild in the UK) about as often as it's used as slang for vahoohas, and even when it is used as a slang term, it tends to be more aggressively vulgar than alternatives. That'd be my guess.

*Newfoundlanders will use "me ol' cock" as a term of endearment, so that statement isn't entirely true, but that's a fairly niche use that I wouldn't expect most people to know of. Newfies are weird.
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I would guess she just doesn't care.
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Revelation34 posted...

The internet is going to end because Net Neutrality has only existed since 2014 out of 23 years.

When it was brought into effect to combat the emerging practice of ISP's throttling popular and/or competing sites for the sake of being able to charge more for them. The regulations were introduced to prevent a problem from developing, and that problem's only going to come back with a vengeance if they're repealed.

Bear in mind that while the Internet has been around since the early 90's, its use has shifted dramatically in the last decade. Facebook only really became a thing in 2005 or so, with the whole idea of social media exploding from there. Youtube in 2006. Netflix only began streaming in 2007. The Internet has become a very different place, particularly with the amount of video content that gets streamed, and that evolution has turned it into a competitor for cable. It's only natural that the telecom companies that run both Internet and cable would restrict Internet to keep the dying cash cow that is cable alive.

Really, I'd be a lot more okay with not having net neutrality if Internet wasn't run by cable companies. That's an extremely obvious conflict of interests, and one of the biggest driving forces for the sort of shenanigans net neutrality is meant to prevent. Break the telecom companies up so that ISP's are actually motivated to compete with cable companies, and a whole lot of those problems would go away.
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Troll_Police_ posted...

we used to have a solution to this sort of problem

we need to bring back the angry mob

The angry mob hasn't really gone anywhere. The problem is that most of the people that understand the gravity of the situation are more rational, well-reasoned people that are less likely to fly into a violent rage. Hard to put together an angry mob of such people.
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ZiggiStardust posted...

fucking old-man humor attempting to connect with millennials. cringe to the highest degree, and feels like mockery. what a mother fucker, ok?

Eeyup. Not to mention flat-out lying. Binge-watching shows in particular will not be the same, unless you count "buffering every five minutes because you didn't pay extra to not have Netflix throttled" to be binge-watching.
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RomanGhost posted...

Also, never use a keyboard and mouse if you PC game.

That's dumb. M+KB is vastly superior for many games. Having a controller available is a good idea for the times when it's better, but that definitely is not all the time.
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mooreandrew58 posted...

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WastelandCowboy posted...

Next, can we please fix the loophole where ignored people are visible when quoted?

That's not really a loophole.

Fine, glitch.

it can be seen as a loophole if some where to create an alt of the sole purpose of quoting themselves so someone can see it. or a friend of theirs willingly did it for them

I mean, does it really matter? On the off chance somebody actually goes to such lengths to circumvent being ignored, does that really change anything? It's really not that hard to just not pay attention to posts you don't care for.
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MICHALECOLE posted...

Googled it

Tc is literally talking about bbc cuck porn. Smh

At times like this, one can only point and laugh.
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Zero_Maniac posted...

We've improved technologically, but that's about it.

And that makes a world of difference. Medicine in particular has identified numerous examples of "god's wrath" that were actually just some sort of pathogen associated with a behaviour (see: Pork and trichinosis; the rules of Kosher are pretty much just primitive food safety protocols), which can now be treated or prevented.

Zero_Maniac posted...

Real theology is about learning not only what the Bible says and means, but also why the Bible says what it does.

That's what I said the first time, which you disagreed with. Make up your mind.
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helIy posted...

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Third_Eye posted...

when synthetic chemicals have ruined your brain

*puts on tin foil hat* GMO is poison.

A tin foil hat isn't going to protect you against things you eat.

what if i eat the tin foil

Then you're gonna have a real fun time in the bathroom in the next day or two.
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JanwayDaahl posted...

It's pretty rare, even in the west, for Muslim girls to have premarital sex, for example.

Some of the most common people to request hymen reconstruction surgery are Muslim women that are looking to get married soon. Anal sex is also a fairly common way to avoid breaking the hymen and still appear virginal. I'm afraid you're rather delusional if you think Muslims aren't having sex before marriage.
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Zero_Maniac posted...

Not necessarily. I'm guessing you're a progressive who thinks that society has actually evolved throughout history, though.

Uhh, it very, very obviously has. We live in a very different world now. Heck, even the bible acknowledges this, with the whole New Testament existing to prepare people for a world that has changed since the Old Testament was written.

Zero_Maniac posted...

Wrong. The widespread corruption in Catholicism is what caused the Reformation, and the Vatican II just changed a lot of the disciplines. It didn't change any doctrine or values of the Church

It definitely did. Hence protestant denominations have different doctrines. One of the biggest is the shift away from considering clergy to be proxies of God, hence other denominations don't recognize the Pope.

Zero_Maniac posted...

That's not at all why theology exists.

So people write PhD theses on reading a couple thousand pages and interpreting everything there literally without performing any additional interpretive steps or trying to contextualize it?
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Zero_Maniac posted...

Revelation34 posted...

Zero_Maniac posted...

I find it hard to call Protestants real Christians. Most denominations tend to really dumb down everything about the Faith. The way I see it, the real Christians are the Catholics and Orthodoxy. Of course, I'm biased.

All denominations are Christians by definition.

By an inadequate secular definition, sure. Look, if I call myself a Christian but then refuse to acknowledge parts of the Bible, can I still call myself a Christian? What if I refuse to acknowledge the Bible altogether? At some point, you can't truthfully call yourself a Christian. I know where I and the Catholic Church draw the line. Where do you?

The problem with the bible is that it's 2000+ years old. Anything that's that old is going to be out of touch with the realities of modern society, because today's society is very, very different from that of the ancient Middle East. That means it has to be interpreted through a modern lens, and some of that interpretation is going to end up concluding that parts of it are irrelevant, or would even be harmful to follow now. It's important to keep in mind the distinction between what's actually irrelevant/harmful and what's just hard to follow (most of the points Jesus made were meant to be difficult or contrary to how people would like to think), but I don't think disregarding bits after proper consideration should disqualify somebody from saying they're following Jesus.

Basically, it's a matter of emphasizing the spirit of the bible over the letter of it. Catholicism's insistence on following the letter at the expense of ignoring what Jesus was actually suggesting to improve the world was one of the bases for the Reformation, and later for Vatican II. Theological study exists because it's not practical to interpret ancient religious texts literally, so people need to consider and discuss what they mean and how to apply them to everyday life.

For the record, I do think there are a whole lot of people who call themselves Christians but ignore Christ's central teachings, and they definitely shouldn't be considered Christians. Opposing charity, for example, is flagrantly at odds with Christianity. Saying that somebody isn't Christian because they interpret relatively minor parts of the bible differently from you, though, is definitely not right.
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helIy posted...

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huh

whats the motive here

Presumably ego-stroking, or at least the patriotic equivalent thereof.
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LinkPizza posted...

I would sometimes read the Manuel on the way home so I'd be ready to play as soon as I started it up.

Even if manuals were still a thing, that still wouldn't be necessary these days, given how often you have to wait for updates and/or installations after you get home with the game.
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Third_Eye posted...

if you can't notice a difference in organic products, you don't have taste buds.

Most blind taste tests result in subjects either not noticing a difference, or preferring the "inorganic" one and presuming it's the "organic" one. It's sometimes noticeable, but acting like that's always the case is just ignorant.

TheCyborgNinja posted...

I wonder if weird dudes ever buy human milk from like cam girls or something. Theres bound to be at least one occurrence of this.

Don't know how often it happens for fetish purposes, but there are donation programs for breast milk to be used therapeutically (most often when the baby's mother is unable to produce enough milk of her own, though it can also be processed into various products). A fair number of maternity hospitals either have a milk banking program of their own going, or they buy the milk from another bank.
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jjgg123 posted...

MICHALECOLE posted...

Why the fuck are you yelling?

get people's attentions on this board

If you can't get people's attention simply by making an interesting topic, then using caps isn't going to make your topic any more interesting. People will notice it, but they still won't care.
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SusanGreenEyes posted...

I like 2 more because of Baby Groot, but I think 2 makes more sense if you watch 1 first.

That is definitely true. They spend absolutely no time introducing old characters in the second one, so watching them out of order would be quite suboptimal.
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You're asking for completely baseless speculation. You're not likely to get any particularly insightful responses.

For a real answer, using the logic of a mentally sound person, one would think they'd place less value on an afterlife, on the basis that most religions consider mass murder to be kind of at odds with having a good afterlife, but mass shooters are not mentally sound people. Who knows what they think?
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nesrtkfan posted...

I used to all the time when manuals existed

That. Not necessarily in detail, since a lot of the information in there doesn't mean much until I've actually played the game and can contextualize it, but I'd usually give it a quick skim, and then reference later as needed. I do the same thing with digital manuals, though even those seem to be disappearing. I'm finding myself really wishing Xenoblade 2 had one, since there's a lot to learn in that game.
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I'd say wait and do it in person. That's the sort of conversation that needs to be two-way, not dumped on her all at once via a text essay.
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Super_Thug44 posted...

fuck my calcs were wrong! it's actually 6.9%

You forgot to carry the 7 in step 19. It's actually 6.2%.
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Snacks2316 posted...

adjl posted...

People with their dicks out in public tend to be doing so for flashing purposes

excuse me? maybe they just had to pee?

stop sexualizing the penis

Needing to pee doesn't typically entail "[going] outside with [one's] dick out." Taking one's dick out while outside? Certainly, and most would not sexualize a dude taking a leak, particularly where needing to aim typically means it's at least partially obscured. But walking around with it hanging out, for all the world to see unobstructed? That's another story entirely.

Taking a leak in public places is also pretty socially unacceptable, largely for hygienic and cleanliness reasons more so than modesty ones. Reprimanding that is pretty reasonable.
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In terms of first viewing, I think they're about even. The first stands up for a rewatch, though, while I'm not sure that'll be true for the second. Only time will tell, I guess.
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TallTamryu posted...

I wouldn't say masterpiece, but it's pretty good, yeah. It starts out amazing, it gets even better...and then it loses a lot of impact and focus down the road. The entire 2nd half of the series is just ok at best for the most part. It's got a lot of "omg awesome" moments though.

Pretty much. I quite liked it up until lolspoilers, and then everything after that was basically a rehash of the first half but with more gimmicky characters, a whole lot more "because I'm smart deal with it" in place of actually explaining clever plans, and an ending that amounted to nothing more than "I second-guessed you 31 times!" "Ha! I second-guessed you 32 times! I win! *roll credits*," which was thoroughly disappointing.
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RoboXgp89 posted...

as in someone wiped the drive then wrote all over it and wiped it again somehow unintentiounally right after they asked

Data destruction programs will do that automatically (overwriting the old sectors with nonsense data to ensure there's nothing to recover), and it stands to reason that they'd already be using such a program to delete something as potentially sensitive as voting records. The timing's still suspicious, but the whole wiped-->rewritten-->wiped again thing is not unexpected.
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ImmortalityV posted...

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ImmortalityV posted...

I never said that. Just why bring up race in the voter statistics? Shouldn't votes be anonymous?

You'll notice the stats are also divided by sex, and women voters of any race were less likely to vote Moore than men of the same race.

Votes on an individual level are anonymous.

So... point is they are trying to make white men look bad as always so that black men get the best white women

Yes, Roy Moore picking up high school girls in his 30's was all part of a grand conspiracy to make sure that all the women you want find black men more attractive than you. That's definitely a plausible and rational thought to have that definitely doesn't suggest some sort of psychotic disorder that you should seek treatment for.
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SunWuKung420 posted...

Hey look, it's this topic, again.

This, but without the extra comma. TC's starting to forget which stories he's copypasta'd.
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dioxxys posted...

lol at trying to equate being a rapist with staring at a woman's exposed breasts in public XD

That's really not the equivocation being made there. Try reading it again without letting your fragile feelings get so hurt by the use of the word "rapist" that you lose your ability to comprehend what you're reading.

Zeus posted...

Pretty sure somebody looking is civil enough.

Unwanted sexually-motivated staring definitely skirts with the definition of voyeurism, which is illegal. It's a bit of a grey area in that breastfeeding is not a sexual activity, but I could see it qualifying because the voyeur was considering it to be (much like changing). Regardless of the legality, though, it's definitely creepy.

MICHALECOLE posted...

Am I the only one who things two years old is too old to still be breastfeeding?

You aren't, because that's a very common sentiment, but virtually every actual study on the matter disagrees with you. That opinion is very much on the wrong side of science, which makes it pretty stupid regardless of how many people hold it.

OmegaTomHank posted...

Im no stripper or Adonis but Im pretty sure I just went outside with my dick out literally everyone would look at me while also wondering what the hell iwas doing.

A sentiment which largely stems from the fact that you have no reason to go outside with your dick out. People with their dicks out in public tend to be doing so for flashing purposes, so having one's dick out is treated under that assumption. It's entirely different from boobs, which are serving an obvious practical function when being used to breastfeed.

OmegaTomHank posted...

There couldve...scratch that there definitely was other children on the plane that dont need to see some bare t*** out.

Oh noes! Not tits! Won't somebody think of the children, having to see breasts be used for their intended and wholly non-sexual purpose! How will they ever recover?

Yeah, not so much. Any kid that ends up scarred for life by seeing a woman breastfeeding needs to have their parents arrested for child abuse, because they have not been raised healthily.

Snacks2316 posted...

"I feel bad about how sexualized breasts have become" said women who wear push up bras and low cut tops to get men to pay attention to them

The onus for sexualization lies primarily on the ones finding the thing sexually attractive. Women don't make boobs sexual (ignoring non-heterosexual interactions for the sake of simplicity). Men make boobs sexual by being attracted to them, which women then take into account when dressing to attract men. On the flip side, men don't make fitness sexual. Women make fitness sexual by being attracted to it, which then prompts men to work out to attract women.

It's also worth noting that something can be both sexual and non-sexual. Most people would agree that the lips are an integral part of sex, yet most people would also agree that it's not usually particularly difficult to avoid getting aroused by lips when not being kissed by them. Similarly, breasts can be integrated into sex, and be dressed up in a sexually attractive fashion, but also serve a perfectly non-sexual function in everyday life. It's really not a hard distinction to make.
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shadowsword87 posted...

Smarkil posted...

If Stalin was the reason for her not having food, yes.

OK sure, but it's perfectly reasonable for someone else who could claim she died from disease or old age, and not include her in their stats.

And given that a dictatorial regime that was slaughtering its populace isn't likely to have kept detailed statistics on causes of death, it does get hard to tell who's actually right.
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Troll_Police_ posted...

you do realize that after the libs let bill 'the rapist' clinton off for lying under oath, molesting interns, and getting his dick sucked in the oval office, this means absolutely nothing right?

It's almost like social attitudes toward sexual harassment and assault have changed in nearly two decades. Wow!
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SinisterSlay posted...

Why feed in public?

Why not?

SinisterSlay posted...

I've seen the pumps, you can extract milk and store it in a bottle.

And then you have to carry around a bottle, which also doesn't keep forever if you don't refrigerate it. Plus Sunny's point about the airline liquid restrictions and the tarmac delay. Why not avoid those hassles? To placate a couple of prudes that don't like being reminded that boobs exist?
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ZiggiStardust posted...

lol the fact that you need an explanation to this shows you how desensitized from actual human emotion you are, ok?

Oh, I don't need an explanation. I know why it happens. I'm just challenging you to explain it, because I know you can't. That's the point.

Pedophiles have been bogeymen for as long as the media's been reporting on them. The fact of the matter is, though, that pedophiles are not all child molesters. Child molestation is - and absolutely should be - a crime. A very serious one, and a very scary one for anyone that cares about any children. Pedophilia is not child molestation, however. There is overlap, certainly, but being attracted to kids doesn't automatically mean actually having sex with them, just as being attracted to an unattainable adult doesn't automatically mean raping them. Pedophilia is merely attraction, no different from any other attraction that's unacceptable to act upon. And there's nothing wrong with that, provided it stays that way.

This is uncomfortable. Of course you don't like this idea. The notion that all pedophiles are dangerous child molesters is extremely common, and the fear and disgust that you (rightfully) feel toward child molestation gets conflated with fear and disgust of pedophiles. But that's wrong. It's hard to accept, but the fact that you can't articulate the difference between liking pineapple and liking little boy dicks is all the proof you should need to know that that aversion has no practical basis. Children will be a whole lot safer if pedophiles feel safe and comfortable saying "don't leave your kid with me," and that's only going to happen if everyone overcomes that aversion Then it's only the evil ones you have to worry about, instead of lapses in self-control. The evil ones are assholes. Nobody likes those guys.
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ZiggiStardust posted...

LOL, are you joking?

it's a pretty big difference from not agreeing with someone's opinion of the new star wars movie to not agreeing that an eight-year-old has a sex-able body, ok?

And why is there a difference? Ignoring that you conflated "thoughts you don't like" with "opinions you don't agree with," what tangible, practical reason is there to treat those differently (again, presuming the latter is not acted upon)?
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ZiggiStardust posted...

yeah ok, no sense in not hiring a social degenerate, right...

But they aren't a social degenerate. Not until they actually do something. Then they're scum and should be locked up and/or ostracized, but until then, they're just somebody who has some thoughts you don't like, and if you can't handle that, I question how you manage in day-to-day life.
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Jen0125 posted...

i'd rather be judged for not liking a pedophile than otherwise.

But you're not being judged for not liking a pedophile. You're being judged for forming opinions without thinking about them. That's definitely not a good thing to be judged for.

Readingscripts posted...

So by being honest about having a problem and taking steps to avoid harming anyone, a person should be punished and shamed and not be associated with. I know nothing about this guy, but your logic is the entire reason people don't speak up about having problematic thoughts or obsessions before it's too much for them to handle. The thoughts are disgusting, but by ridiculing someone for being honest about having them and trying not to act on them you are doing more to contribute to the problem than they have.

Basically. When you have to hide urges because they're socially unacceptable, they get worse, not better.

Readingscripts posted...

That said he should seek therapy as should anyone else with those thoughts, but most don't out of fear.

Eh, that's debatable. It's not that black and white. Some should seek therapy, but others can completely mitigate any potential harm by just not being left alone with kids, something that's actually pretty easy to arrange when saying "I'm a pedophile, so don't leave your kids with me" doesn't carry a major risk of being beaten to death. It's not actually a disorder if it doesn't adversely affect the person's life (or the lives of those around them), in which case there's no need to cure them.
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