trying to insist that evil doesn’t exist potentially opens you up to becoming a victim in the future.
No, it doesn’t. I have battled with some vile abusers who did horrible things. I deplatformed a pedophile by releasing leaked screenshots that showed the individual online dating children. Azsula believed that Azsula’s actions were ethically okay because consent doesn’t exist. I organised a campaign to contact everyone on Azsula’s discord server and send them the article with the screenshots. I told people to leave, and not give their time or presence to abusers, and over 1/3 of them did, leading Azsula to shut down the discord server and retreat from public life. I did so in the full knowledge that Azsula’s intentions were not malicious, that Azsula didn’t mean any harm. The reason why I was able to do so is that I think ignorance of the consequences of one’s actions is itself a form of violence which must be dealt with.
And I don’t agree that sociopathy is a recognised mental condition. It doesn’t have a DSM entry. What it does have is a note in the ASPD section saying that sociopathy is sometimes used as a slang term for ASPD. ASPD is a recognised mental condition, sociopathy is not. And I have met people with ASPD who had managed to learn a little of the skill of empathy. It was hard for them to do, but not impossible.
So you deplatformed a single pedo who claimed it was from ignorance, after you destroyed their audience? I don’t buy their story.
And I have met people with ASPD who had managed to learn a little of the skill of empathy. It was hard for them to do, but not impossible.
They can understand it intellectually, but they don’t feel the same feelings. There’s a trait in autism called “masking” where you just learn to emulate what non-neurodivergent people do.
Also note that I never claimed that sociopaths are guaranteed to be terrible people or even vice versa. Just that they are an example of people that are unable to feel empathy. A couple of people with Anti-Social Personality Disorder learning to mask doesn’t change tgeir condition.
No, the pedo claimed that consent doesn’t exist before I destroyed the pedo’s audience. I got My hands on a year’s worth of private chatlogs and searched them extensively to find the most incriminating screenshots to prove beyond any doubt that Azsula was dating those kids. So I got a pretty thorough understanding of the nature of the relationship and how they justified it to themselves. They were anti-ageist political radicals, who considered age of consent laws to be ageist. The pedo has an adult body but identifies as a child internally. So that’s why it feels justified to Azsula internally. Doesn’t feel justified to Me, though.
No, it doesn’t. I have battled with some vile abusers who did horrible things. I deplatformed a pedophile by releasing leaked screenshots that showed the individual online dating children. Azsula believed that Azsula’s actions were ethically okay because consent doesn’t exist. I organised a campaign to contact everyone on Azsula’s discord server and send them the article with the screenshots. I told people to leave, and not give their time or presence to abusers, and over 1/3 of them did, leading Azsula to shut down the discord server and retreat from public life. I did so in the full knowledge that Azsula’s intentions were not malicious, that Azsula didn’t mean any harm. The reason why I was able to do so is that I think ignorance of the consequences of one’s actions is itself a form of violence which must be dealt with.
And I don’t agree that sociopathy is a recognised mental condition. It doesn’t have a DSM entry. What it does have is a note in the ASPD section saying that sociopathy is sometimes used as a slang term for ASPD. ASPD is a recognised mental condition, sociopathy is not. And I have met people with ASPD who had managed to learn a little of the skill of empathy. It was hard for them to do, but not impossible.
So you deplatformed a single pedo who claimed it was from ignorance, after you destroyed their audience? I don’t buy their story.
They can understand it intellectually, but they don’t feel the same feelings. There’s a trait in autism called “masking” where you just learn to emulate what non-neurodivergent people do.
Also note that I never claimed that sociopaths are guaranteed to be terrible people or even vice versa. Just that they are an example of people that are unable to feel empathy. A couple of people with Anti-Social Personality Disorder learning to mask doesn’t change tgeir condition.
No, the pedo claimed that consent doesn’t exist before I destroyed the pedo’s audience. I got My hands on a year’s worth of private chatlogs and searched them extensively to find the most incriminating screenshots to prove beyond any doubt that Azsula was dating those kids. So I got a pretty thorough understanding of the nature of the relationship and how they justified it to themselves. They were anti-ageist political radicals, who considered age of consent laws to be ageist. The pedo has an adult body but identifies as a child internally. So that’s why it feels justified to Azsula internally. Doesn’t feel justified to Me, though.