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Redbeard 101
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 4:03 am Reply with quote
fighterholic wrote:
Porcupine wrote:
I'm gonna say it again so that I attract the wrath of all the idiots here who keep mentioning "counseling". Counseling is FAKE, it is for losers!! It's a stupid profession and everyone who does it is a quack!!

Hmm, then what did I go to counseling for those oh four months?


Free mints? because the circus wasn't in town so you thought you'd just be a loser and waste your money? Couldn't have been to get advice and help dealing with emotional issues. Of course not. Wink
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 4:06 am Reply with quote
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Free mints? because the circus wasn't in town so you thought you'd just be a loser and waste your money? Couldn't have been to get advice and help dealing with emotional issues. Of course not. Wink

Must have been since it was at school and it was free. On the side they were selling lollipop condoms for a dollar Laughing
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 10:53 am Reply with quote
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Maybe those people don't have family, hell maybe that "family" were the perpetrators in the first place. Since counseling is so [expletive] useless how would you suggest curing a pedophile or stopping them? Suppose your fiance' is murdered and your life is ruined, what's your answer then huh? What's your answer then to all the millions with some sort of mental illness who need help controlling themselves?
I suggest curing or stopping criminal pedophiles by either jailing them or killing them, or castration.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 11:25 am Reply with quote
From the BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6711363.stm

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With treatment, sex offenders are far less likely to re-offend



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Treatment can enable offenders to recognise patterns in their behaviour that make committing further offences more likely and to avoid risk situations, lapses into risk behaviour or relapse into re-offending.


I guess those quacks know what they are doing

EDIT: here is another article where child porn wasn't enough so this man made his own

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cumbria/4709796.stm
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 11:50 am Reply with quote
this thread =
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 11:53 am Reply with quote
mistress_reebi wrote:

You still haven't answerd me when I asked what kind of message does that tell society if real child porn is banned but animated isn't. It's the same thing! If real child porn is banned because it's wrong to have sex with a child, then why is animated child porn available? It sends the same message. You know what, don't answer. This topic is too old.


I'm sorry, but I just have to respond to this because, well I DID answer your question. I even provided a totally awesome analogy. Let me try and sum it up again: society doesn't encourage something by letting it be legal. Cigarettes are legal, but everywhere society is telling you not to smoke or to get help in quitting.

I'm not going to comment on the counseling issue because I've never been to a psychiatrist, and I don't know anyone who has. I really don't know very much about psychology.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 12:02 pm Reply with quote
Zac wrote:
this thread =


I agree, it's about time to lock it

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I'm sorry, but I just have to respond to this because, well I DID answer your question. I even provided a totally awesome analogy. Let me try and sum it up again: society doesn't encourage something by letting it be legal. Cigarettes are legal, but everywhere society is telling you not to smoke or to get help in quitting.

I'm not going to comment on the counseling issue because I've never been to a psychiatrist, and I don't know anyone who has. I really don't know very much about psychology.
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Does society encourage people to smoke because it's legal?


You mean that small sentence? If real child porn is illegal, wouldn't they make animated child porn illegal also? It may be something society doesn't encourage but it's hypocritical to allow the real stuff banned but not the animated when it causes the same affect on people. People are still jerking off to the animated stuff as they do to the real stuff.

Now that everything is clear, I'm not going to reply again.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 12:04 pm Reply with quote
No, don't lock it just yet, I'm still waiting on a proof from Porcupine.

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mistress_reebi wrote:
If real child porn is illegal, wouldn't they make animated child porn illegal also? It may be something society doesn't encourage but it's hypocritical to allow the real stuff banned but not the animated when it causes the same affect on people. People are still jerking off to the animated stuff as they do to the real stuff.


Child pornography isn't illegal because people jerk off to it, it's illegal because the child is a sexual victim. There is no such victim in the creation of animated child pornography (at least not inherently - I believe that animations based on a real child are also illegal), so it's not illegal.

"Ew, gross" is not a sufficient legal base for making something illegal.


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PostPosted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 12:06 pm Reply with quote
You're making the illogical assumption that child porn is banned due to its "influence" rather than what is necessary to make it. Which if true, would mean rape porn and 'fake' child porn with young looking actresses pretending to be underage would also be banned. But they aren't. Violent video games also haven't yet been banned.

It's pointless arguing with you because you continue to ignore very basic facts and continue to pull out "facts" with no real proof. "Oh, a couple of people did this, so clearly all pedophiles are like this"
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 12:11 pm Reply with quote
HitokiriShadow wrote:
You're making the illogical assumption that child porn is banned due to its "influence" rather than what is necessary to make it. Which if true, would mean rape porn and 'fake' child porn with young looking actresses pretending to be underage would also be banned. But they aren't. Violent video games also haven't yet been banned.

It's pointless arguing with you because you continue to ignore very basic facts and continue to pull out "facts" with no real proof. "Oh, a couple of people did this, so clearly all pedophiles are like this"


Then why are people classified as sex offenders when they have possession of child porn?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/5389756.stm

There, not all paedophiles go after child. Besides, I didn't say all paedophiles were like that I just showed proof that child porn isn't enough.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 12:16 pm Reply with quote
mistress_reebi wrote:
Zac wrote:
this thread =


I agree, it's about time to lock it


Problem is, then it just seeps into other threads bringing them down and off topic. I know I have already had to redirect people to here because they were bringing it up in another thread. Better to just let it get out of their system and have one place to do it, instead of them randomly bringing it up in other threads trying to get a bite.

Also I am sure Zac would have locked this if he wanted too as he has no problem locking threads. Just because a thread makes you want to blow your brains out doesn't necisarrily mean lock, although it could mean both. In other words he would have done it by now.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 12:17 pm Reply with quote
mistress_reebi wrote:

Then why are people classified as sex offenders when they have possession of child porn?


Because it's illegal and that's the law. Keep in mind that the law isn't necessarily always "right" and can at times be really wierd. After all, laws change because people disagree with them, so using legality as an argument for what *should* be or anything outside of whether something is legal, can be a weak argument.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/5389756.stm

There, not all paedophiles go after child. Besides, I didn't say all paedophiles were like that I just showed proof that child porn isn't enough.


*sometimes" isn't enough. Once again, you use an individual to prove a trend or a sweeping statement. Yep, Columbine proves violent video games aren't enough, eventually they'll need to kill to satisfy themselves. Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 7:47 pm Reply with quote
This tread is going in circles, but as long as people still want to post they should keep it open. Maybe Zac should join this tread too. If he does mistress_reebi will finally have some allies and not have to go it alone. Wink
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 10:48 pm Reply with quote
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Maybe, but if I'm not mistaken there have been movies about OR having a side plot of high schoolers having sex over here. Don't forget that Arcueid isn't human and there's no way in hell that she's going to be susceptible to the laws that humans have laid down. Clearly them having sex was made apparent in the anime, but if doesn't show them in the act, what grounds do you have to attack it? No I don't think this promotes lolicon or sex with minors because that segment lasted no more than 30 SECONDS.
Looking at what I wrote, I apologize because it might not be clear to everyone that was I said was semi-sarcastic in nature. It is hard to explain the point I was trying to get across. But the most important thing was that ultrapostman understood what I was trying to say, since he was the one I was responding to. I was not attacking Tsukihime in any way, I just want to make that clear.

Kilgamayan, I have absolutely no proof of that. However there is also little to no proof that counseling is a scientific and smart profession.

In any case, I'm glad to see that my attacks upon psychologists and counseling practices have finally gotten some wrath lol. I'm not sure continuing that discussion is a good thing here though, so I think it's best that some of us just agree to disagree on the virtues of counseling.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 26, 2007 12:12 am Reply with quote
Okay, just making sure.

And don't forget!

Porcupine wrote:
Simply saying something is true is NOT proof.
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