I’ll take it a step further. The movement to publicly condemn Jeffrey Epstein for being a pedophile was in fact harmful. It hindered our ability to accurately assess what went wrong, and gather the will to repair the broken system.

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If one person tweets “Ghislaine Maxwell is a rapist” or ten million people tweet it, what’s the difference? How has whose life changed because of that? Will the planet be a great place to live if 100 million people tweet “Ghislaine Maxwell is a rapist”?

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I want solutions. I want intelligent discussion. I want to reach consensus. I want to organize and pressure our leaders to take steps that make sense. We can make the world a better place, but shouting “HE’S A PEDO!!!!!” on Twitter is not actually constructive.

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It really seems to me that people are happy to use social media to express emotion, and that’s enough for them. They read about a rapist. They get mad. They vent that rage on Twitter. Job done. Call me crazy, but I want more.

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Do you know of any? What concrete changes have Americans made to prevent future Epsteins from doing exactly the same thing he did? What’s to prevent a Palm Beach billionaire from bribing Acosta’s replacement tomorrow? Or Cy Vance? He still has his f****** job.

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There are real concrete lessons that we can learn from the case of Jeffrey Epstein. There are steps we can take to make life much harder for future Epsteins. Oddly I never see anyone talking about any of them. I have not heard one clear proposal for improvements.

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The facts didn’t matter nearly as much as enforcing the consensus that would enable ostracism to work like in the old hunter-gatherer days.

Does ostracism work in the 21st Century? I don’t know. That is a very interesting question to explore, but I digress.

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None of Epstein’s victims were children. They were all young adults. Maybe you could argue that some were adolescents. In any event there was no pedophilia there at all. But that wasn’t the point.

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It was *very* important to go along with all of this. Anyone who wavered was immediately accused of being a pedo who defends kidfuckers. The accuracy of the rhetoric was irrelevant. People weren’t so much lying as they didn’t care about the details.

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Not long ago it was all the rage on Twitter to express outrage at what a degenerate slimebucket Jeffrey Epstein was. Everyone virtually nodded in agreement that the pedophile swine will rot in hell, etc.

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Ostracism requires that everyone agree. If only 80% of your people participate it won’t work. So there is enormous pressure on waverers to go along with the majority and truly cut all ties with the malefactor.

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We evolved as hunter-gatherers. We no longer get our food that way, but we still think like hunter-gatherers. One common punishment hunter-gatherers impose is ostracism. It requires no technology, no formal courts or judges. Groups of 50 to 150 low-tech people can manage it.

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Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995-1999) with Kevin Sorbo

makes Baywatch

look like Shakespeare.

Should I put my pronouns in my bio?

Replying to https://twitter.com/undefined/status/1348226529726242822:

@AmeliaIris5 @ismarterthenU @BobbyPiton3 There is disinformation on the poster in the picture.

When I was 17, my boyfriend and I had sex. As I was legally a minor people want to say I was raped. I was not. I know. I was there. Mr Piton is spreading disinformation.

Replying to https://twitter.com/Heather_Cozad/status/1348228887080271877:

@AmeliaIris5 @ismarterthenU @BobbyPiton3 and there is nothing in this thread about any 10 year olds. So I'm just going to block you.

Call me crazy, but lynching the Vice President of the United States doesn't exactly tell the world "Hey, we totally got our shit together"

Infantilizing young adults, trying to restrict their freedom as if they were small children is the same as installing stronger doors and windows on the one-bedroom apartment which is now much too small for the almost full grown carnivore.

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Almost all societies throughout history chose the latter course. Today all across Europe for example young adults are treated with basic respect. Things like the age of consent range from 14 to 16 years old. Freedom to explore the world.

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Two ways to respond to the growth of your tiger:

You can say "It's puberty. Adolescents have raging hormones. That's why the big cat keeps attacking me and my friends."

Or you can admit that the animal is no longer a baby and needs to be treated like an adult tiger.

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