Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution.
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There's one more angle to this - apart from the raise in vigilante violence and messing up with police operations which both are very valid.
Just as we stopped getting TV feeds constantly equating pedophiles to child molesters, those guys stepped in to fill the void.
Pedophiles are not inherently child molesters. This kind of equation is not only wrong, it also adds to promoting dangerous behaviors among them.
Plenty of pedophiles will never abuse a single child, knowing full well it is dangerous and harmful for minors to be engaged in such relationships. However, the more we equate pedophiles to predators, the more people, especially in the emotionally vulnerable groups like teen pedophiles, will actually accept themselves in this role. Among those who stands against this anyway, plenty will become suicidal, not seeing an option to live a non-offending life.
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That's an interesting and reasonable take.
I'm actually surprised you are not down voted to oblivion!Guess this is what happens when you meet real people online who are not artificially enraged - a productive conversation!
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Sure, but shows of this kind imply that all pedophiles are child abusers and all child abusers are pedophiles, neither of which is true - and such equations are harmful.
You're getting super close to "well, akshully, it's epehbophilia not pedophilia" territory.
I give 0 fucks why someone rapes a kid. And I have 0 sympathy for anyone getting beaten to a pulp for raping a kid.
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And his whole family line supports Nazism
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Sure, but shows of this kind imply that all pedophiles are child abusers and all child abusers are pedophiles, neither of which is true - and such equations are harmful.
In practice, I don't see how I would even know someone is a pedophile if they didn't act on their inclinations. I guess they could publicly declare it but that seems unwise.
I would be concerned if the Internet vigilantes ran with unsubstantiated rumors, like if say Elon musk just called someone a pedophile or of the blue.
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Poorly regulated pedo hunters that can end up ruining genuine law enforcement efforts at catching pedos aren't good.
Genuine law enforcement efforts?
Like their efforts to protect rapists? Or the genuine efforts to vote for a rapist and pedo for POTUS? And their genuine effort to provide cover for their pastor pedo?
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Heh seems to me that these pedophile hunters are just violent hateful people who found a way to make their hate and violence appear righteous.
There should be no tolerance for vigilante justice in a civilized society.
Where is this civilized society at, in the US?
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You're getting super close to "well, akshully, it's epehbophilia not pedophilia" territory.
I give 0 fucks why someone rapes a kid. And I have 0 sympathy for anyone getting beaten to a pulp for raping a kid.
Nope, I'm not getting there. Sure, ephebophilia is a thing, and so is hebephilia, but in a given context there's no point in this distinction.
I'm only saying that many cases of child abuse do not involve pedophiles/hebephiles/ephebophiles/whatever. Children are the easiest to take advantage of, and this is what drives quite a few hypersexual non-pedophiles to become child abusers despite not being predominantly attracted to children/minors to begin with.
Regardless of reasons, whoever abuses children deserves punishment - although I would much prefer for the police, not vigilantes, to be involved in it.
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In practice, I don't see how I would even know someone is a pedophile if they didn't act on their inclinations. I guess they could publicly declare it but that seems unwise.
I would be concerned if the Internet vigilantes ran with unsubstantiated rumors, like if say Elon musk just called someone a pedophile or of the blue.
This is one of the most problematic parts about vigilante justice and why it should be gone for good, regardless of what they are trying to achieve.
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Nope, I'm not getting there. Sure, ephebophilia is a thing, and so is hebephilia, but in a given context there's no point in this distinction.
I'm only saying that many cases of child abuse do not involve pedophiles/hebephiles/ephebophiles/whatever. Children are the easiest to take advantage of, and this is what drives quite a few hypersexual non-pedophiles to become child abusers despite not being predominantly attracted to children/minors to begin with.
Regardless of reasons, whoever abuses children deserves punishment - although I would much prefer for the police, not vigilantes, to be involved in it.
Why would you expect rapists to punish rapists?
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That's an extremely narrow point that isn't worth bothering with, because nobody is confused about what you mean when you call them "nazis".
Also it's not one guy doing a zeig heil, it's become a trend amongst them now. They have invited the comparison openly, and anybody getting all pissy about "you just call everything you don't like nazi" is just a crybully who's deliberately wasting your time. At this point anybody turned off of your cause by your use of the word "nazi" isn't your ally in the first place.
Like sure they're not exactly the same as the NSDAP, but the category still applies, and it's not worth anybody's time arguing over the exact nature of the type of fascism they have, because "nazi" does the job and again, nobody is confused by it, because the original nazis are all resting in piss.
Do you have any argument as to why this matters, in any way, at all?
Do you have any argument as to why this matters, in any way, at all?
the majority of the population doesn't identify this as being nazism. If you are looking to get more people backing your cause you cannot alienate them by appearing to be reactionary or uneducated.
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Why would you expect rapists to punish rapists?
Alright bud, you went too far into angry trolling territory.
Gosh, what .today has become these days...
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Alright bud, you went too far into angry trolling territory.
Gosh, what .today has become these days...
Cops are well known to be rapists, ignore rapists, and even protect rapists. Not to mention the rampant domestic violence they engage in.
Why would you assime.cops have any interests in punishing their cohoet?
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The pedophiles being attacked are actively hunting, otherwise, they wouldn't be caught in a trap...
Some of these "pedo hunter" groups have attacked completely innocent people where the accusation of someone being a pedo was completely unsubstantiated. This is the problem with monetizing vigilantism: It creates a demand, and if that demand is not being met by a supply of actual criminals, then it will be filled by vigilantes criminalizing innocent people.
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Some of these "pedo hunter" groups have attacked completely innocent people where the accusation of someone being a pedo was completely unsubstantiated. This is the problem with monetizing vigilantism: It creates a demand, and if that demand is not being met by a supply of actual criminals, then it will be filled by vigilantes criminalizing innocent people.
How does one get "tricked" into meeting a child for sex, and then show up?
I've never been tricked into meeting a child for a sexual encounter...
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Just prove you're not a pedo and they will leave you alone.
You forgot the /s....
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Oh. They're just gonna call people pedo and attack them even though they're not. It's extremely obvious.
Or very likely make mistakes. Vigilantes is nice in comic books and movies, in real life it turns terrible very quickly.
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Do you have any argument as to why this matters, in any way, at all?
the majority of the population doesn't identify this as being nazism. If you are looking to get more people backing your cause you cannot alienate them by appearing to be reactionary or uneducated.
the majority of the population doesn’t identify this as being nazism.
That's a big claim for no citation.
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That's not it. The right will lie about anything. If we change our beliefs to prevent the right from lying about us we would never have to stop changing our beliefs.
This is more about right wing militias hunting lqtb+ people under the guise of pedophilia.
No, I think this is it. This is the media doing what media does
