• hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Honestly it seems like the actual amount of pedophiles available to murder massively outstrips the demand of pedophiles to murder, and the end result is that people just expand the definition to the point where it’s becoming meaningless.

    Over the past few years, I’ve seen pedophilia used in the following contexts. The list gets more ridiculous as you go down:

    • Middle aged men “dating” adult teenage sex workers
    • Middle aged men “dating” adult sex workers in their early 20s
    • 18 year olds meeting up with 15 year olds they met online
    • A 17 year old discord mod talking with a 14 year old how they’re attracted to each other, but the age difference might make it unethical
    • 18 year olds dating 16 year olds
    • Drag Queens having story hours at the library
    • Men in their early thirties dating women in their early 20s.
    • Men in their mid thirties dating women in their mid to late twenties
    • Queer people in general

    It feels like this “kill a pedo” routine is just gonna be used by people to go after regular people by assholes looking for blood.

    • Randomgal@lemmy.ca
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      Anyone arguing to mass-murder a loosely defined group of people, should probably be a reason for pause.

      How about we try to help people instead of killing them first?

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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        1 month ago

        Yeah, if you’re calling for a group of people to be killed, regardless of what that group is or claims to do, there should probably be some sort of police investigation on you. It could be that you’ve correctly identified a dangerous demographic, but you’re probably just a violent, hateful prick.

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      Yeah, I have issues with predation on children as all decent people do, but there’s an intense bloodthirst that people like to use pedophiles to justify. And beyond the fact that they keep expanding their targets to non-pedophiles, they also just have a level of blood lust I’m uncomfortable with