is this what the conversation has come to? a foregone conclusion that all men ought to be drugged up on porn so we don’t go out raping and pillaging the countryside?
we’re not all like this. i’m not like this. and i don’t like being told that i am.
we’re not all like this. i’m not like this. and i don’t like being told that i am.
I am wholly supportive of helping people break their porn addiction. I am not supportive of trying to get rid of all porn everywhere as the means to protect a few people from themselves.
You are horribly miscontruing my remarks. Doubling down like this makes it look intentional.
i wish your answer now had been your original answer. i urge you not to assume malicious intent (that would be malicious) and consider that your original comment might have been saved from scrutiny given expansion.
But you continue to use tactics that look openly hostile, not like an attempt to communicate in good faith.
Also, all of the rebuttals here seem to assume that the people who wind up addicted to porn are innocent victims, wholly unrelated to the people who would otherwise commit sex crimes. I see no reason to make such an assumption. I also see no reason to believe that life as a person with a porn addiction is vastly worse than life as a person who can't constrain themselves from committing sex crimes. I have reason to believe doing things like that comes with much more personal downside, even if you posit that they don't feel guilty about it.
While in many respects the response of the Catholic heirarchy to sexual abuse of minors by priests was beyond appalling and inexcusable, the incidence of such abuse (or accusations of such abuse) from every comparison I've seen was similar to other religions groups, schools, and youth organizations like scouting.
I have just spent a while looking at the statistics. I have found a huge number of incomparable, incomplete, and incorrectly analyzed statistics, and many strong claims that catholic priests are no more likely to abuse. However, I have found nothing remotely objective pointing in either direction. Have you found any actually objective studies which show anything meaningful as to the question of whether priests are more, less, or equally likely to abuse?
FWIW and similar provisos.