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1. about 13 hours ago on Doonesbury

   Sorry, but it’s Occupied Palestinian territory, not Israeli territory any more than France was German territory in 1942 or 43.

2. 1 day ago on Doonesbury

   I would presume that there are forms of child p*** in which children voluntarily, without being forced, engage in, to them

   Yes, which is why it’s hard to feel certain about the “iffy” cases. It could be that the children involved don’t see any “creep” vibes because the adult involved is actually innocent of harmful intent. Family and authority adults have to freak out first, because a child’s entire early life is filled with new experiences, most of which don’t scar unless the adults clench up and tell the children that what they’ve experienced is bad, harmful, sick, dangerous, and must at all costs be avoided in future.

3. 1 day ago on Doonesbury

   You seem to be saying that they should be locked up if they MIGHT do something

   I didn’t phrase it well then, because everyone with the physical and mental capabilities MIGHT do something horrible. The potential exists in us if we’re alive and intact. But with most people, there’s no LIKELIHOOD, no genuine DANGER of them acting out because we don’t see precursor behaviors. Violating a huge social prohibition isn’t done all in one go unless the individual has suddenly lost their mind. In nearly every case we see precursors, “red flag” cases. E.g. “innocent” fondling of children that doesn’t really look okay to anyone seeing it

4. 1 day ago on Doonesbury

   Yep, it’s all about the power. Some intended victims have scared away their inexperienced assailant by pretending to be sexually attracted to him. The assailants knew they wouldn’t be able to get it up and, fearful now, ran away

5. 1 day ago on Doonesbury

   I remember her mentioning that. What an amazing woman !

6. 1 day ago on Doonesbury

   I strongly suspect that things are being labelled “AI” today in the same way, and for the same reasons, that in the ’50s everything was “atomic” (“Atomic Bowling Alley”) and in the ’80s “laser” (“Laser Wash-o-Mat”).

7. 1 day ago on Doonesbury

   Don’t know. To me, it’s not vicious if nobody gets hurt and it’s, e.g., kids playing doctor or similar

8. 1 day ago on Kliban's Cats

   Guys, if you feed your cats raw food at all, have it and them checked by the vet. There are cats dying right now from bird-flu contaminated raw food and perhaps foods we don’t think of as raw, particularly: eggs for example.

   If they get infected, the virus acts so quickly that your cats will probably be dead before you even realise that there’s something wrong.

   My calico idiot goes in tomorrow. I don’t feed her raw food except fish (Bumble Bee albacore today) from a tin, but I’m not willing to risk her life.

   DO please take your cats in right away

9. 1 day ago on Doonesbury

   I should perhaps have mentioned that Nobel laureate in physics Dr Ernst Schrödinger was attracted to pre-pubescent girls.

10. 1 day ago on Doonesbury

    I don’t know anything about what today’s “AI” is used for, or how, really. My experience goes back to the days of the famous retort “If a proklyataya horse could do this you’d say the HORSE was intelligent !!”

    But AI is still not at the level where it can do what humans cannot. And a cartoonist or illustrator who created kiddie p*rn would probably not be, or even want to be, creating images of recognisable individual children.

    And not all p*rnogr*phy is vicious. Distasteful (to me), yeah, and very often s*xist as hell (but there are women who like it). But the cohort that looks for vicious p*rn, especially vicious kiddie p*rn, is a very unhealthy subgroup that should be locked up if there is any danger of them wanting to act out.

    There are two groups of individuals (almost all male) who look for pre-p*bertal children. In one, the members were just verdammte unlucky. They’re attracted to young kids the same way others are attracted to adult women with big brüste or to “big” adult male “furries”. They get off on s*x with their fetish type and it’s both normal and innocent if their fetish is adult and a consensual partner.

    The other type is the rap*st. I won’t bother to go into detail, except to say that we know that they’re in it for the violence, not the s*x. It’s the same with those whose fetish is being violent toward young children.

    For those in the first group who are attracted to children, they are SOL. They’re in even worse trouble than g*y men and l*sbians who are constantly getting sh*te from knuckle-draggers who claim that they could go straight if they weren’t such disgusting pre-verts. Those poor souls have no outlet for their s*x drive and attractions because it’s a felony simply to have a piece of cartoon kiddie p*rn in their possession. Yet they are in nearly all cases decent, pro-social people who just don’t want to be miserable all their lives. If they had access to cartoon kiddie p*rn, most would be fine with that.