From: heron@gendo.net   
      
   On Oct 21, 2023, Ilya Shambat wrote   
   (in article):   
      
   > There are people who think that “sickos” and “psychos” are at the   
   > root of everything that is wrong with the world.   
   >   
   > In fact there are many things worse than “sickos” and “psychos.”   
   >   
   > There is genocide. There is war. There is destruction of whole ways of life.   
   > There is rainforest deforestation and federal debt. These people are   
   > hyper-focusing on issues concerning themselves even as they do nothing to   
   > address major problems affecting everyone else. And until they have sympathy   
   > for matters concerning others, they have no right for sympathy for matters   
   > affecting themselves.   
   >   
   > In recent times we have seen a demonization of sex offenders. They are being   
   > treated as demons. They are not demons; they are people who did something   
   > wrong. Sex crime is just that: a crime. It means that you’ve done something   
   > bad. It doesn’t mean that you are incurably evil.   
   >   
   > The sex offenders in jail are treated terribly. I take issue with   
   > disproportionate punishments. Even if a man has committed a sex crime it   
   > doesn’t mean that he deserves to be buggered and beaten every day. And it   
   > also doesn’t mean that everyone must treat him as though he had cooties.   
   >   
   > Are there “sickos” and “psychos?” Of course there are. But they are   
   > not at the root of everything that is wrong with the world. Most wrong done   
   > is done by people who are perfectly normal. And, given that these people are   
   > behind many of these problems, their stance singling out the “sickos” and   
   > “psychos” is totally hypocritical.   
   >   
   > It is important therefore that matters be put into perspective. If you   
   > don’t care what you’re doing to the world, the world should not be caring   
   > about your concerns. I would like to see things safer for children, but I   
   > condone neither demonization nor disproportionate punishments. And I would   
   > also like to see attention paid to bigger issues affecting us all.   
      
   those “perfectly normal” ones ARE sickos and psychos   
      
   98% of “normal” brain-damaged language monkeys live in a linguistically   
   induced hypnotic trance   
      
   they believe everything they hear their language machine say   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)