Facebook Grievance #1
Alright, I’m most definitely a Facebooker. It’s immensely useful. I even set up my profile to post the blogs from this website up on my facebook. I think some of my friends read them without realising I actually own a blog. If you are one of these people, click here. See what I did there?
So where was I?
Ah yes. Sometimes, I see things on facebook that fill me with absolute dread and despair.
Tonight it got too much.
As most users will know, there are “groups” on facebook. Sometimes they’re fan groups or whatever, and sometimes they’re “causes”. I’m all for someone giving their time to a good cause. I commend anyone doing anything to try make the world better in whatever way they can.
But not when it’s shit.
Tonight I stumbled across a group that I found hilarious.
The group is so elequently called :
“1,000,000 PEOPLE AGAINST PEDOPHILES AND CHILD PORNOGRAPHY!!!”
The group aims to get to a million people that are against pedophiles and child porn.
Because there’s so much competition from the other side of the argument isn’t there?
Yeah. You know what? I’m frankly sick and bloody tired of everyone trying to recruit me to their pedophile gang.
Every fucking day, I hear people trying to tell me all about the merits of pedophilia and the glorious wonders of child porn.
I mean, them feckin’ pedos were just getting a bit big for their boots. All that unstoppable, relentless, support from the general public towards pedophiles just needed to be counter-acted. I think it’s high time we ended all the government funding that goes into child porn and all, y’know? I mean, I don’t even care about the tax benefits anymore.
Perhaps, with this new facebook group, we can change public opinion. Maybe, after one million people finally get off the fence and think “Y’know what man? I’m starting to question the morality of all this fiddling” and decide that they’re now AGAINST pedophilia and child porn, we can make things change.
Jesus christ. I’d say words fail me but well, they clearly don’t.
Since when do we need to be reminded that pedophilia and child porn is wrong?
Let’s have some stats. Currently, according to Google, the world’s population stands at 6,706,993,152. I’m going to say, for the sake of argument, that 0.01% percent of people are pedos. That’s one person in every thousand people (I think - my maths isn’t the best when my brain is allowed to melt in the summer). Probably being generous to them and all.
That leaves 6,700,286,16 people in the world that aren’t pedophiles.
I would hazard a guess that out of these 6,700,286,16 people, at least 6,700,286,16 of them would agree that pedophilia and child porn isn’t good.
I can really imagine them saying things like :
“Child porn? Ah now. That’s just not on now is it?”
“Pedophilia? Nah, it’s not the Mae West, I’ve gotta admit.”
Funnily enough, they ask us to join them in their “cause against pedophilism“. Well now. I certainly won’t be joining a group where they can’t even get the fucking word right. Honestly, “pedophilism?” It’s not a fucking religion. Pedophilia. Pedo-fucking-philia.
I bet if the pedos did unite (on Facebook no less) and start a group, they’d at least get the word right.
Now, I’m actually going to be semi-serious for a little bit. And possibly seemingly controversial, but hear me out.
In the blurb on this group, they acknowledge that pedophiles are “sick” but there “is no cure for them”. Right. They then say they should all be killed. I find that interesting.
I have no authority or even a basic knowledge in the field of psychology, but I was under the impression that pedophiles were born with that particular mental condition. They are, quite literally, sick in the head. Ill. If this is the case, there’s something wrong about the “kill them all attitude”.
Nobody think, for a second, that I’m condoning this sort of thing (I think that goes without saying, but it’s not a risk I’m willing to take really).
Let me make the (admittedly flawed - I’ll get to that after) comparison with homosexuality. We now accept that homosexuals are born with whatever it is that makes them attracted to the same sex. Years ago, this was considered a shameful illness, was it not?
Obviously the huge, inescapable difference here is consent and mental maturity. But I hope you can see the point I’m trying to make.
The world caters for all sorts of mental conditions. Addicts are treated. Insanity is a plea.
I’m not sure what I’m suggesting here (serious stuff really isn’t my forté, and on the whole, I’m a bit of an ignorant buffoon). I just find it difficult to blame someone for actions caused by something they were born with. That isn’t to say I don’t find the mere thought of those actions absolutely abhorrent (I think that’s the first time I’ve managed to get alliteration with the letter ‘a’). I don’t subscribe to the “kill them all” attitude anyway. Perhaps in time there’ll be some sort of rehabilitation methods.
Ah feck it, I dunno.
I’d like anyone to comment on this, I’m interested to find out if anyone sees what I’m getting at. I’m also more than open to the possibility that someone who knows what the fuck they’re talking about will comment and make me look like the fool that I am.
But yeah, that facebook group. It’s like having a group against murder. Or a group campaigning for people who enjoy happiness.
Obviously, nobody in their right mind fucking likes or appreciates pedophilia.
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