From: banerjeeadda1234@gmail.com   
      
   On Monday, 23 October 2023 at 07:19:47 UTC+11, heron stone wrote:   
   > 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   
      
   Apes after all, ape they must.   
   Going by your statistics and elementary maths, 2% only have inspiration,   
   divine or otherwise.   
      
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