Normally, I'd trot out my "don't persecute nor prosecute people for thought crime" spiel, but for fucks sake I'm not convinced he hasn't ALREADY molested a child.
Yeah, at the very least this troon has a stash of CP already. I can't imagine these people start out by trying to buy sex with 1 year olds. They only get there after CP pics and videos are no longer enough for them.
I want to type out the usual "there's a difference between a pedophile and a child molester; one has a mental disorder and the other is a criminal" thing, but I'm sure at least a dozen people with minimal reading ability will take that as defending this particular creep, so I'll abstain.
You can still be a criminal and a monster without molesting children directly. For example possessing child pornography which imo should warrant life imprisonment or execution.
A poster here going around yelling "Women are universally evil! Someone needs to do something about it!" is thoughtcrime. He's (possibly) thinking of crimes, but there's no impetus, no action. It's a vague "someone" in question.
But the posts given, those are a call to action. Conspiracy to commit a crime is a crime in itself, and isn't thoughtcrime because it involves visible clear preparation steps to commit the crime. And those posts are grooming, they're clear preparation steps to commit a crime. Which makes them a crime.
It is important to be against thought-crime. But it is also important to know when something exceeds just thought.
Normally, I'd trot out my "don't persecute nor prosecute people for thought crime" spiel, but for fucks sake I'm not convinced he hasn't ALREADY molested a child.
Hans, get the flammenwerfer.
Yeah, at the very least this troon has a stash of CP already. I can't imagine these people start out by trying to buy sex with 1 year olds. They only get there after CP pics and videos are no longer enough for them.
No
Yes unless they're prepared to go live an isolated life in a monastery I will absolutely persecute pedophiles
I want to type out the usual "there's a difference between a pedophile and a child molester; one has a mental disorder and the other is a criminal" thing, but I'm sure at least a dozen people with minimal reading ability will take that as defending this particular creep, so I'll abstain.
You can still be a criminal and a monster without molesting children directly. For example possessing child pornography which imo should warrant life imprisonment or execution.
Thought-crime is thought-crime.
This is an action. It is seeking something.
A poster here going around yelling "Women are universally evil! Someone needs to do something about it!" is thoughtcrime. He's (possibly) thinking of crimes, but there's no impetus, no action. It's a vague "someone" in question.
But the posts given, those are a call to action. Conspiracy to commit a crime is a crime in itself, and isn't thoughtcrime because it involves visible clear preparation steps to commit the crime. And those posts are grooming, they're clear preparation steps to commit a crime. Which makes them a crime.
It is important to be against thought-crime. But it is also important to know when something exceeds just thought.