But let’s not forget the only important part: the child wasn’t murdered by a doctor. It died when its mother died of entirely preventable causes.
That’s the only thing that matters, because my fucked up religion told me so.
I’m an intelligent, rational human being who bases their entire life and modern choices on an ancient text, which I believe was written by a divine source I am incapable of proving exists.
FUCK RELIGION AND RELIGIOUS PEOPLE. YOU’RE TRASH HOLDING CIVILIZATION BACK.
That’s because this is and always was about racism, not immigration. The strongest supporters of this shit are all White people who believe in the White genocide conspiracy theory, and more supporters who don’t believe in the conspiracy are still scared of White people becoming a minority in America.
The DA cited a lack of evidence as the reason for not charging him, but the article then goes on to detail that the allegations involve him making various female employees go on overseas trip with him and play the role of his wife (including sexual activity) in order to fool sex traffickers. Surely the DA could have interviewed all the women involved to verify the accusers’ testimonies, no? Makes the lack of evidence argument seem very flimsy.
Well, the victims should sue the hell out of him at any rate. He lost his job over this and they should try to financially ruin him.
Hey, you people whose land we stole! Can we use some your little remaining land we so generously let you keep to detain people we want to kick out of what is now rightfully our land, and definitely not yours or theirs?
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No, it does not make him a pedophile if he preferred post-pubescent, young women to more mature adult women.
That he manipulated and/or forced himself upon anyone, however, does make him a rapist.
Pedophiles, by clinical definition are people who are attracted to prepubescent people. That means people who are attracted to simply mid- to late-level teenagers are not pedophiles. Sad as it is to say, post- or mid-pubescent teenagers have already developed adult sexual features and normal adults can be attracted to them.
Sorry, folks. Pedophilia is a real disorder with specific criteria, and it doesn’t align with the casual term we use as “pedophilia,” which is just sexual involvement with people under 18 years old.
This guy did several interviews with them, if anyone wants to see them up close. Warning: it’s a bit disturbing.
And my point is that they should. Pedophilia is a very serious condition, and it shouldn’t be lumped together with adults who have sex with adolescent non-adults. Both are bad things, but one is a very serious psychiatric abnormality, while the other is simply a social ill.
With all due respect to the spirit of your argument, I have to point out that pedophilia is actually about child rape, and that teenagers are not, strictly speaking, children. Pedophilia, as a psychiatric disorder, is about sexual attraction to prepubescent humans. What Trump and the others on the Epstein list are actually guilty of is human trafficking.
We do differ then. I don’t throw the term “evil” around that loosely. Most of the suffering in the world is caused by well-intentioned people or people who feel justified in causing the harm they do. The very reason people try to justify the harm they cause is because they see themselves as a good person. True evil is thankfully hard to come by, and is typically the stuff of psychopaths and malignant narcissists. You do encounter it outside of that, like in extreme racists, but that’s also thankfully fairly rare.
But I’ll give you an example: I work in a community mental health clinic, and some of my patients have some pretty hardcore criminal histories. Just about all of them also have some pretty hardcore trauma and abuse histories. They’re, at least in some senses, “the product of their environment.” This is such a truism that there’s even a saying in social work: hurt people hurt people. Are they evil?
Good people see what is right, know what is right, and do what is right regardless of what others try to instill or coerce into them.
No, I would argue you’re describing intelligent people. Good people are defined by their intentions. My relatives are good people because they want what they believe is best for others. The fact that their beliefs are wrong is a testament to their stupidity. Plenty of harmful things have been done by good people.
Edit: Take their votes for Trump. They voted for him because they genuinely believe he has their welfare at heart. They’re wrong, because they’re stupid, but that’s not the same as the KKK Trump voters who voted for him because they’re evil.
It’s worth pointing out that empathy is different from sympathy and compassion.
Empathy is basically just understanding someone else. It doesn’t mean agreement or acceptance. Empathy is usually necessary in order to manipulate someone effectively.
That being said there is a component to empathy—sometimes called affective or emotional empathy—that reflects the phenomenon of emotional contagion, or how empathizing with someone else’s feelings can sometimes cause you to feel the same emotion on a lesser level.
Sympathy is understanding another person through shared or similar experiences.
Compassion is caring about someone.
What these Christians are talking about is the way there’s a trail from simple empathy to compassion that can cause some people to get over the bigotry and intolerance they have worked so hard to instill in them.
I have some of these Christians in my family. They are good people who have been taught rotten beliefs, and to avoid any critical thinking about said beliefs. I avoid associating with them as much as possible. Religion is a mind virus and these folks have one of the worst strains.
Yeah, some porn influencers (e.g. Belle Delphine) sold their “bath water” for, like, $500 a pop. They sold out in minutes. Desperate people are very easy to manipulate.
I mean, oldest profession and all that. Shouldn’t be surprising. When you can just fill mason jars with tap water and let the imaginations of some horny others do the rest, what’s not to like?
Imagine doing shit like this and thinking history will remember you fondly.
“Are we the baddies?”
Co-opting CPS a weapon in the “war on drugs” was a very intentional choice with extremely predictable outcomes.
That’s a nice sentiment until you look at the actual data. Drug-addicted parents are horrible for their children. Even if you want to make the argument that it was some intentional class warfare shit—and I’m not actually disputing that point here—it’s still a fact that SA parents tend to be shit parents. Every case should be evaluated on its own merits, that’s the point. And that doesn’t happen, and it sucks. But that doesn’t mean that drug testing pregnant mothers is a bad policy inherently. In fact, it’s a good policy, with sub-par implementation following it.
Hospitals have no business testing for drugs without cause, which they do in the US per the article: “Hospitals across the country routinely drug test people coming in to give birth.” Screening people routinely for drugs is some police state shit.
Yes, they do. You can’t trust the self-reporting of patients when it comes to drugs, especially when it comes to the life of a yet-to-be-born child, who may be affected by said drugs. It’s a totally rational thing to do for the sake of a newborn. It’s not some “police state shit,” it’s completely rational medical care.
However, I just cannot imagine a scenario, where someone would be consenting to a drug test without coercion, can you?
LOL, I absolutely can. If you believe you haven’t ingested any drugs, what’s the harm in having yourself tested? If anything, the outcome you expect to happen simply adds credence to you. Where do you live that people who aren’t on drugs would categorically refuse to be tested? Because their “privacy” rights are being tested? Who cares about being tested for a crime when you know you’re in the clear? The test literally becomes evidence in your favor.
Add to that, that these tests are not good enough for random testing.
I’ll concede I don’t know enough about these tests to comment on their validity. But that’s a separate argument to be made in court, regardless of the result.
In the U.S. all healthcare professionals are “mandated reporters.” That means, if they find out about any form of child abuse while they’re on the job, they’re legally required to report it. Failing to do so can result in the loss of their professional license. Doing so is always considered an exception to confidentiality rights.
I suspect the hospital in question has a strict policy about reporting any pregnant mother who tests positive for drugs to CPS as a means of avoiding lawsuits. The problem is really with CPS systems in the U.S. They’re supposed to investigate reported instances of abuse and if it turns out there’s no cause for concern, close the case in short order; but CPS workers aren’t all of equal quality, and in my experience (I work in mental health), there’s a real problem with people who were abused as children becoming CPS workers and having a bias towards being overly suspicious of all parents. So, cases sometimes get dragged out, which ironically results in psychological harm to the children the CPS workers are supposed to be protecting.
No, they’re not. They’re getting something out of it. I don’t know why that is precisely, but they’re getting something. This was never about caring for their constituents.