It can all be explained by John’s business plan:

People living in a modern western country complaining about capitalism is pretty much the same thing as a teenager telling their parents who feed them and put a roof over their head that they hate them.

Once again, this reviewer sees what appears to be a left leaning arc, latches on to it and completely misses the point. This episode was not “anti-capitalist,” it was anti-monopolist. It showed the dangers of what happens when a company becomes too big to fail and had a parasitic relationship with its employees who…

“Now, anyone who pays attention is acutely aware of what’s going on, and how utterly unfettered modern capitalism has gotten.”

I’m so tired of seeing this pointlessly reductive description of the show’s ethos. It’s never actually been “people who care about things are dumb”, it’s more of “some people will pretend to care about fashionable causes purely for the sake of their image/ their own ego, rather than out of any genuine altruism”. Which…

but by mocking Al Gore by having him get hysterical about a half-man half-pig half-bear creature that appears to be imaginary, there was the undeniable implication that global warming wasn’t real.

Definitely agree. That teacher story sent me over the edge. That's wrong. That's how I feel.

Yeah, I understand that in order to conduct the research and offer any kind of treatment the people doing that work can't treat their patients like predators. In that case, they should absolutely do what they've got to do to keep them from turning their urges into actions. The reaction from Adam's first therapist…

Right, agreed 100%. And definitely no one, not even the researchers, are asking you to feel compassion. What they, specifically and not anyone else, are trying to do is learn how to teach people to control the inclination or impulse to act. In order to do that, they have to treat these people as patients, human…

I am all for the further research preventative treatment brought up in this article. And I understand that there are people like Adam that are tortured by their sexual desire for children, that they did not choose to be that way and that it takes a great deal of effort not to act on those urges when help is difficult…

That was my breaking point, too. I think what these researchers are trying to do is incredibly important and I think in 10-20 years, there could be astounding breakthroughs.

Truly. It's like an alcoholic in recovery deciding to work as a bartender.

Yeah, a paedophile who genuinely doesn't want to offend would never, in a million years, work with children. This guy wants to offend, but he's looking for a way to make himself feel better aftewards, something so he can say "Well, I tried to get help..."

Yeah, that just seemed irresponsible in every way imaginable, and I 100% question his real commitment to not acting on his pedophilia.

Yeah, I'm all for preventative treatment, but this dude is being really fucking irresponsible. A self-described pedophile working with young children is, for all intents and purposes, like a drug addict being in charge of a narcotics evidence locker. He might never slip up, but who wants to take that chance?

I agree completely with most of what you are saying. But legally I'm not sure there is much that could be done - this person is (presumably) innocent of any crime thus far.

My stomach turned when I read that line. I just can't believe that any self-aware person who wanted to prevent offending would put himself in that situation.

Pedophilia is not a sexual orientation and it is dangerous to label it that way. It is paraphilic disorder. This is not about sexual preference but a reliance or obsession with children for their sexuality and dominance over them is part of that.

I was pretty much on board with the article ('yes, treatment sounds good, these studies sound good, good that this kid doesn't condone sex with children in any way') until i got to the part about the guy who's a pre-school teacher. I don't care what he claims about the age range of his proclivities or how much his…

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