I'm not sure what you are saying, but I have no beef with ActivityPub users.

Actually plea deals are very common, even in murder trials. Should it be, do you think?

If you aren't interested in rewarding his choice to go to therapy, does that mean you would prefer he chose something else?

Uhuh. I don't think many pedophiles are gonna be choosing to exercise that right, buddy. What do you think?

How do you figure? Is that what you would do if you were sexually attracted to children? Is that what I should do?

If that's so then it sounds like maybe we owe him a favor for choosing to go to therapy. What do you think about that? Should we ask him what he wants?

I'm curious, what exactly do you think would have happened to the man in my story if he hadn't gone to therapy at all?

I didn't say that pedophiles deserve rights. Pedophiles have rights whether they deserve them or not.

That's alright buddy, we don't have to be friends. I still meant what I said though.

I want you to know that I'm not talking about this subject because I'm a pedophile sympathizer. I'm the pedophile. I enjoy trying to figure out the incentives that society lays out for me. It doesn't seem to me that this particular case would be interesting to you though, because you don't seem to think of therapy as being relevant to pedophilia.

In any case, I don't think suicide is a good idea. I believe it's a waste of time to consider suicide for oneself, or for anyone else. I worry, do you think suicide is a good idea?

Suicide never solves anything, friend. Even if there was some kind of issue with you, I would never ask you to kill yourself, no matter what the issue was.

Lol

Actually that's not exactly innovative. Paid education has always existed.

Neither is paying for faster internet a particularly innovative concept- one that Tor has not implemented. (Tbh a feature like that sounds like something that would have MAJOR technical issues; my point is solely that it is desireable.)

Never mind then, you can't trust yourself either.

The moral of the story must be to not be mentally ill in any way ever.

And some people only consider themselves religious as a way of signaling that they like "christian" morality. It goes both ways. Once it becomes a battle between good and evil, it stops being a battle between correct and incorrect.

It's really unfortunate for both sides I think. Many people's religious beliefs are for purely intellectual reasons; the factual statements just seem true to them. Unfortunately, many of the people "agreeing" and "disagreeing" with these statements don't think they are worthy of respect except as a tool in their personal culture war?

I refuse to use religious beliefs as a tool. I will present only what I believe, even if every other person who believes it is a gay loser. It's far more respectful to everyone involved.

Pedophiles in shambles right now like:

It isn't.

Know of a pedophile that got absolutely fucked over by being open with a therapist. Everyone always told him to go to therapy. From my experience, it's usually either that or "kill yourself."

He never molested anyone, and he never consumed CSAM, but unfortunately for him: 1. In practice, pedophiles are not granted the same rights to patient confidentiality as many others. 2. He lived in the nightmare police state that is the UK. And 3. He did not realize that muh 1000 year old vampire drawing is illegal in the UK.

What happened is this: the moment he told the therapist he was a pedophile, the therapist decided that was enough justification and immediately called the police on him. They seized all his electronics, found the loli porn, charged him with molesting all those poor virtual children, and sentenced him to years of check-ins and house arrest.

The worst part is that he never did get to experience any actual therapy. The second worst part is that he couldn't visit our shitposting forum anymore due to fears about getting into even more trouble from interacting with alt-right shitposters or something idk.

My takeaway from that story is this: if you want your rights to be respected, there is nobody you can trust besides yourself.

Maybe its possible that the great distances separating us lead to some of the key morals of Eastern religion being lost, or lost in translation. Maybe we missed information about which lessons are valued most and considered more important. Maybe the weird personal interpretations of the particular person bringing over the text will be weighed equally with more established interpretations. Maybe the random unfiltered opinions of the person who brought the text over will be assumed to be part of the teachings of the religion, just because the person shared their opinions at every opportunity.

You need a strong and diverse two-way communication channel for a religion to move from one place to another, otherwise things are going to get corrupted. If your religion spans half a dozen books and hundreds of pages then it's practically guarunteed that the religion will end up worse after it's travel.

Shoot, even traveling through TIME can heavily mutate religions.

Do you consider it possible that a lack of strong and consistent messaging about eastern religion has similarly corruped its messaging across cultures?

So my mama can check to make sure I'm still brushing my teeth every morning and afternoon.👍

"Ugh, we did that last time, let's do something different. Let's play the UN troops, you will capture and rape me."