This is one of those takes that’s so controversial I’m afraid to post it, which is exactly why I have to.

I neither endorse nor disavow this, and no, I’m not in the picture.

  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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    3 months ago

    Yeah, they actually mention that in the article. And also that the most likely age for a person to abuse a child is 14, basically because they’re new to not being a child themselves.

    That kind of brings up another question: should we gas people that target kids just because they can, then? Not that there’s really an effective way to filter out the actual pedophiles from the “pedos of convenience”.

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      3 months ago

      I think there are methods to filter them out - that’s how we know most child molesters are not actual pedos. Personally, I’m against gassing anyone and I’m for the approach suggested in the article.

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        I’m assuming some kind of anonymity was involved in gathering the statistics. In court the incentives to lie are pretty different.

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          I think there are ways to psychologically assess an individual, so there’s no need to rely on self reporting.