• @captain_spork@startrek.website
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      9 months ago

      This is like telling someone to “stop liking rock music” or “stop enjoying ice cream.” People don’t decide what their preferences are, they just have them. If we can give pedophiles a way to release those urges without harming children that should be a good thing. Well not good, but positive in the relative sense at least.

        • Rikudou_SageA
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          389 months ago

          That’s because you’re not very bright.

            • @PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              39 months ago

              It’s idiots like this that make me think of that story I saw the other day on lemmy. Where a disabled man was taking pictures of kids damaging his property, someone saw him and called the cops. Cops came, questioned him, found out what was up and released him, meanwhile morons in the neighborhood hear he was taking pictures of kids and got arrested, and that was enough for them to brutally beat and kill him that same night.

        • @papertowels@lemmy.one
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          49 months ago

          But do you actually have a reply to the content of the comment? You’re essentially pulling a “smells like communism, it bad” instead of addressing the points brought up.

    • @photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      219 months ago

      That’s like telling gay dudes to stop liking dick. It’s brain chemistry and neural circuits, you can’t exactly just snap your fingers and be rid of the problem. Humans are complex creatures.

      • such_lettuce7970
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        19 months ago

        Pedophilia is not akin to being gay (and kindly fuck off with that tyvm). It’s akin to rape, or sexual sadism (and I mean real, violent sadism, not roleplay). It is a predatory inclination and @nxsfi is right - trying to frame it as an “orientation” does sound like MAP acceptance rhetoric.

        • @lolcatnip@reddthat.com
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          -19 months ago

          Pedophilia can’t be comparable to rape because rape is an act and pedophilia is not. Child rape is often incorrectly called pedophilia, but pedophilia itself is a mental state, and this is exactly the kind of conversation where conflating mental states with actions is entirely unacceptable.

    • @lolcatnip@reddthat.com
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      89 months ago

      “Anyone who disagrees with me is a child rapist.” That’s the level of argumentation I expect from a child or a fascist.