Agreed. My issue is that I begin to feel as if my sense towards mob justice is pure selfishness. It isn't preventative, it's cathartic—for us. Yet for kids, the crimes continue to happen.

Yes. You can't help the desires you have. You can just help acting on them. I don't judge a non-offending pedophile any more than I judge a sexual dom or foot fetishist or non-offending bestiality fetishist. Which is to say, not at all. People who can't get help and are made to feel like they're pieces of shit…

I felt the same inclination, but was happy to see that the "Adam" person has said that he openly tells the school-teacher NOT to become a teacher, among others in the group doing the same.

Oh, for fuck's sake. Yes, child sexual abuse is disgusting and awful. What possible down side is there to trying to help prevent people from doing it? Why wouldn't we want to do that?

It's courageous of Adam to be honest about this. I imagine there are more pedophiles than we are aware of. We only learn about them after is too late and they have already acted on their impulses. Like he says, nobody chooses to be a pedophile. But you do choose your actions and hopefully more will make the choice to…

"Our society is a punitive culture. We are curative, not preventative."

I applaud the bravery and compassion of all of the doctors who are addressing this issue. It sums up my thoughts on pedophilia, which are not acceptable by the vast majority of people.

LOL. True story: I used to have tits. I had implants put in in the early 2000's. Then I hated them because they were in the way and men looked at them and they were heavy so they came out. Today for the first time in 10 years a man stared at my chest while I was talking to him THE ENTIRE TIME. Mind you, I am a flat as…

Cobranding fail. Stories like these make me wonder what some people in market departments really do...

In an effort to mitigate the fears and concerns parents have over the extremely damaging effect literature can have upon developing young minds, I have created a summer reading list for incoming high school students. I think we can all agree these books teach valuable life lessons and will foster intellectual…

Thank you, as someone allergic to cats, I find it frustrating to see an increase in people traveling by plane with their cat. In the cabin. Next to me.

I think it goes without saying that if Michelle were the "right" skin color and belonged to the "right" political party (see what I did there? huh? huh?), he would be kissing her "fat" ass.

My daughter had a crazy 10 minute crying fit in our hallway yesterday because we didn't have any cookies. Real tears running down her face, weeping into the floor. She just kept wailing "I want cookie please" over and over. I finally held her by the shoulders and said, "I am REALLY sorry, but there are no cookies…

I'm going to formulate my response to you by copy and pasting things I've already said in this same thread:

Re: people that want the experience of having their "own child" and people that aren't up for adoption: "I wouldn't really want to force couples into adopting a needy child if they seriously couldn't love a kid…

Megan McCain aside, I am way uncomfortable with artificial wombs. And I say this as someone who was, twice, the worst pregnant person ever. I mean, hated every moment of it. And I'm no scientist, but the idea of baby being "incubated" without the rhythm of a parent's (mom, dad, whatev) heartbeat, breathing and sleep;…

My issue with this artificial womb thing is that it reduces a human person to a something that is artificially manufactured without contact with his or her human mother during its earliest stages of life. Sort of like a human vending machine. It does not seem like something we should do to a human no matter how…

Oh, yeah, but aren't those women also selfish and unwilling to adopt because the simply must have a baby that shares their DNA?

And I actually thought about that before I terminated my unwanted pregnancy. It would have been nice to have that option, but I'm still not sure if I would have done it.

Regardless, I still…

Or discarding older children, because "I want a baby that is all mine"

This is exactly what I was thinking. The only reason I can think for this to really be necessary (other than for selfish people that insist they must donate genetic material in order to love a child) is for women that are already pregnant and cannot bring it to term for whatever reason. But I have no idea if…

I am a teacher and I see what the school lunch is. You couldn't pay me to eat that every day. I feel like people who are bitching about this should be forced to eat school lunch every day for all of their meals for a year, because honestly school meals make up the majority of some students' diets. And, we have all…