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I dove into an unfortunate rabbit hole last night about dark redditor confessions. I don't think anyone knows if it's genuine or not but someone claimed to be a child therapist and PDF file.

He even went as far as saying he committed acts with some of his "clients". I personally don't care how many kids he helped out mentally because that kind of abuse, especially in that position is insane. So it got me wondering, do people think the good he's done could ever outweigh the bad?

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[โ€“] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I tend to ask how bad that worst act was. Some shit, ima judge your ass for even if it was only once, no matter how much you say you changed, because you might be faking the change to keep from being noticed.

But the standard is pretty fucking high if it wasn't personal to me. Like, if I saw you kick a dog that wasn't even remotely aggressive, ima judge your ass, but be open to you changing. Eventually, if that's the worst you've ever done and you at least pretend to have changed well enough to not repeat it, I'm not going to hold that over your head forever.

But you kick my dog? Assuming I can't get away with burying your ass, you better hope we never run across each other in the woods when we're both 100, because it'll be your last day on earth. No forgiveness, no benefit of the doubt.

But really big shit? No, Hitler never gets to be forgiven, period. Yeah , he's dead, but ima judge that motherfucker until my last conscious moment

Now you brought up a specific example. It happens to be an example that I would absolutely never, ever trust the person again. Three reasons first, abuse of position. He already proved he will ignore professional ethics as well as general moral ones, as well as laws. That's hard to change in people. Not impossible, but hard.

Second, he got away with it. That means his regret is dubious. If he truly regretted it, why's he divulging it that way instead of taking steps to make him less likely to be able to repeat things?

Third, people that diddle kids don't tend to stop. They just tend to pause. It's impossible to nail down exact numbers because there's some that never get caught. But the recidivism rate is high, and it is very rare that someone willing to do that can stop with just one act.

So, no, I couldn't believe that any good he did balances out there near certain fact of the only reason he didn't diddle every single kid he could have was because he didn't think he could get away with those. He absolutely would have fucked every single patient that met his victim profile if he could have.

Also, it's okay to say pedophile, the word police aren't going to spank you.

Tbh, I can't think of any situation where I could weigh any amount of good acts against fucking a single child and that one bad act not taint everything else. And it doesn't have to be literally fucking, I'm speaking figuratively here. There might be some act that was so irrelevant to the victim that it might not matter if the good was good enough, but I doubt it. I can't think of anything at least.

[โ€“] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

If I saw anyone harm any animal intentionally outside of self-defence, that's an instant and permanent write off. I'd literally take any opportunity to talk shit about said person beating animals and would take pride in beating their ass if the moment was right.

Anyone hurting animals gets a big ol' irrevocable "fuck you" from me.

There's like 8 billion people on this planet you can be friends with. Don't roll with or enable abusers.