What if I wrote an article about the lost art of child molestation, talking about how children are now much better prepared against being lured away by strangers? And then sagely asked if "we should miss" the decline of child predation?
São Paulo (where I live) this article also applies... São Paulo is huge, and has some subways, that were in the past filled with pickpockets.
Now we have for example the fact that in the last year alone we had a rise of more than 100% (don't remember the exact number) in violent robberies.
This year alone (and the year is not even over) we had also around 100% increase in robberies that end in death.
I seriously would prefer someone would try to steal stuff from my pocket, instead of pointing high caliber guns at my head (and this part of guns at my head already happened twice to me personally).
As a network evolves, the number of Nazi comparisons not forestalled by citation to Godwin's Law converges to zero.
Now when you're just trying to walk down the street and some kid gets your wallet, it becomes a wee bit harder to appreciate...
Sex with children was never romanticized? (Sparta, I'm looking in your general direction here.)
I don't see an inherent paradox in admiring the execution of an action while simultaneously condemning its objectives or effects. For example, Attila the Hun must have been a great military leader, but that does not mean one should admire the idea of plundering the world.