As in, not known to you IRL.
I’ve occasionally brought it up before, but a while back in my reddit days I was in a thread where a “professional deprogrammer” had popped in and was talking about how to “deprogram” conservatives and get them to shift left in their views. It centered around restoring their sense of community and belonging with more balanced viewpoint folks IRL and away from their online echo chambers.
I asked them if they had any way to convert someone you encounter wholly online and they said that it was basically impossible, IRL you have a decent chance, but not online.
I’ve been thinking about that quite a bit, so now I’m curious if anybody here has actually gotten an online conservative to come to the dark side light side?
Maybe, I guess I’m willing to step up to public flogging when necessary.
Pedophiles and child molesters are literally the most hated and shamed people on the planet.
1 out of 5 to 1 out of 10 children are sexually abused depending on what numbers you go by (it is likely even worse based on report rates for sexual violence and commonality of trauma related amnesia).
Shame doesn’t help anyone. In fact it’s one of the biggest reasons why victims don’t speak out.
Are you proposing to somehow reason a pedophile out of molesting kids? I think regular public beatings would be more effective than a 2 year prison sentence. There’s a reason they don’t last long with other inmates, they know that’s not something you talk out of someone.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/end-of-phoenix-sex-offender-treatment-program-puts-public-at-risk-lawyers-say-1.3862939
Less than 4% recitivism is pretty impressive compared to the average prison stay.
That said, I think sheltering those unwilling to take accountability and change is a disgusting abuse of the ‘justice’ system. I think criminals unwilling to enter/engage with rehab programs should:
Not be released from prison regardless of term
Not be separated from Gen pop in prison
Interesting, I wonder what the recidivism rate would be if the affected community were allowed to go medieval on them instead.
What’s stopping you from doing it now?
Laws. That’s why it needs to be a matter of public policy.
Not much better, I’d bet. The death penalty does not stop murders from happening. Sure, there might be slightly less, but it would not scare people off the crime, just off getting caught.