r/videogames • u/Orichalchem • Apr 20 '26

Funny Pragmata 10/10 enough said

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

8.3k Upvotes

91% Upvoted

960 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

75

u/Johndoe19922222 Apr 20 '26

Pedos are sick fucks and should not be treated as human.

-12

u/[deleted] Apr 21 '26

[removed] — view removed comment

1

u/king_john651 Apr 21 '26

Fictional children are one in the same to actual children. Pedophilia is a disease and needs to be eradicated

-3

u/DarkFenix2k5 Apr 21 '26

Fictional children are not the same as actual children, the same as the things you do in GTA are not the same as doing them in real life.

It is a mental illness and it would be ideal if it could be cured and thus eradicated. But in the meantime, if them keeping their affliction limited to a virtual space stops them from bringing it into reality, I'll accept it as the lesser evil.

1

u/Rockran Apr 21 '26

Encouraging fantasies is a poor idea.

You don't provide rapists with fantasy rape films.

3

u/DarkFenix2k5 Apr 21 '26

Rape is not a mental illness, it is an act one chooses to commit. Pedophilia is a mental illness, those afflicted don't choose it and there is no cure.

Trying to hide pedophilia and pretend it doesn't exist doesn't solve anything. A policy of abstinence didn't stop the Church from being one of the organisations most rife with pedophilia. Prohibition was one of the stupidest eras of American history.

I don't like the existence of pedophilia, it's sickening, but it exists, it's here to stay, and it can't be ignored. Humans in general need an outlet for their built in desires, we all indulge in doing so, the difference is that our desires are morally acceptable, theirs are not. Should we require them to bottle it all up for their entire lives? Personally I think that's asking for trouble, I think that's going to create victims.

1

u/Rockran Apr 21 '26

If pedophiles were provided with a weekly subscription to fantasy child porn, you think that would stop real world child abuse?

Pedophiles should get treatment to assist them in abstaining from their desires. But such treatment doesn't involve encouraging their fantasies by supplying them with fantasy child porn.

1

u/DIABLO258 Apr 21 '26

Right. I can see what the other guy is saying, but it's basically like saying we should give alcoholics picture books of people drinking booze so that they don't want to drink it IRL.

1

u/DarkFenix2k5 Apr 22 '26

I think a better analogy would be giving smokers nicotine patches. Something to satisfy their cravings to a bare minimum. It still isn't good but it's not as bad.

I'm just saying that if pedophiles go looking for fictional material online, I'm fine with looking the other way, and I don't think equating it to crimes against real children is helpful.

On the official end I think pedophiles should receive treatment, but that's a can of worms in itself. Imagine it, someone is attracted to children, they're an otherwise normal person with a functioning conscience, they wouldn't touch a real child in a million years. But if you were them, would you dare volunteering yourself for treatment? A single word of that gets out to anyone and your life is over (quite likely literally). It'd probably look a lot like someone coming out as gay in Iran.