RE: Unpopular Opinion: Shaming Paedophiles Isn't Very Ethical
We won't ever know how another human and their issues truly feel. No one is a mind reader.
The baiting to me is wrong because it messes with their already messed up head and the sole aim is to kill, not help.
The paedophile, when baited by the dude pretending to be a 12 year-old, may have shifted from "I can't do this! It's wrong!" to "Maybe just this one time. The opportunity has presented itself."
And then, already fucked in the head, they come up with the rationale that things will be fine, perhaps like, "Maybe this kid knows what he/she is doing and is actually more mature than most adults in today, and most adults today are fucked up."
That alone kind of sums it up: "Most adults today are fucked up."
No one can argue with that.
I find that the vigilantes are lost in their own irony. Sorry, but any adult pretending to be a kid for whatever purpose is messed up.
Yeah I agree with what you are saying. It suddenly makes an easy path for someone who is messed up in their head to justify it just for that one time or something like you said.
I remember having a conversation about this with someone back when I was 21 or so because that Dateline NBC show To Catch A Predator was on and we were even like WTF about some of the show. For instance in certain episodes the would usually let the guy walk back out of the house and then the cops would arrest him and sometimes the guy wasn't running or anything and the cops would just full on head tackle the guy to the ground like he had a machine gun or something. A lot of the stuff they were doing was sort of borderline in my opinion and then some of the stuff was just over the top aggressive instead of just calming putting him in hand cuffs and putting him in the cop car.
It's all entrapment. And that's just too grey an area.
I'd probably only err on side of safety in a war zone.
But in today's society? Not very necessary.
I agree. A lot of it is entrapment.
There is all kinds of weird stuff that happens here like that. In college there would be young cops that would sneak into college parties and try to hang out and then bust underage drinkers. How lame.
Here is an article about how one cop worked at Burger King for 2 months just to bust someone with 5 grams of marijuana.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/undercover-operation-burger-king-marijuana_us_57ee7b91e4b082aad9bad66b