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[ARCHIVED] Jay | 4 months ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +8 
 Pedophile is a misnomer cause you'd have to really hate kids to do the things they end up doing to them.
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Diacone Frost | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 I don't think they comprehend that they're causing them tremendous harm.

At least that's what my psychiatrist friend told me.

People sometimes are really evil and sick.

Let's protect kids with all we got. Guns if it is what it is.
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Jeff Swann | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 If you parents showed you "love" by fucking you & gaslighting you, then you'd either have to face the tremendously painful fact that you were never really loved by the broken animals that birthed you, or you repeat the abuse because that destructive shit is love in your mind & you can't let it be anything else. They are all super fucked up & always running from reality in some form or fashion. Their lives were so chaotic that a lack of chaos feels completely alien & wrong. So they go through life fucking with all the people around them to feel more at home.
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AbstractEquilibrium | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 -phile means more "attraction" than "care"

A hydrophilic substance for example is one that attracts/bonds to water; it has no inherent morality