It's not just pedophiles, I include rapists and murders
So why not poachers, or the rich 1%, or petty thieves, or grifters, or your opposing political party, or door to door salesmen?
There's a lot of reasons to hate a group of people, yet you specifically picked these ones for your daydreams. It's a practical choice, but one's daydreams don't have to be practical, that was a choice of your own. I could have a dire hatred towards Clowns, Mimes, and ICP fans, and daydream of smashing those to my heart's content just as readily as you can daydream your desire to destroy pedophiles, rapists, and murderers.
What sets this lot apart? I assume it's not just mere law breaking escalation as that'd be really flimsy on it's own as a reasoning.
Surely, through neurology maybe you could augment their brains, but does that exist yet?
We have the means of chemical castration and we have drugs that can reduce the libido, but for those who do it as a thing "about power"... it's not about how well their parts work or their libido being on the fritz, it's something deeper.
It's a case-by-case sort of thing, and many of them go on to never commit an offense.
Regardless, if they commit the crime of harming a child or person, or distribute pornography of children, then I can't see that as redeemable.
What about it though, these two are very different things with the only matching theme between them being "children".
What are your thoughts on children in general? Lets start there.
With murderers, it depends on the motive. I believe standard murderers can be rehab'd but it just depends on what the scenario was.
If someone's of the mind that they are above everything else, the only way to appeal to them is to convince them how much that it's in their best benefit not to kill people. This is predictably temporary.
Belkar from Order* of the Stick and Alex from A Clockwork Orange are strong examples of how they're more liable to adapt towards their new constraints than become better people.
but those targets are within the realm of my own political views, and I'd rather not go into that.
So there are other daydream demographics?
There could be something in this. Your "rather not go into that"-ing is there for a reason, maybe that reason is connected to other reluctances you aren't addressing, even if just thematically?
Turncoat said:Is the presence of a moral code what splits us apart, solely?
I can't help but feel you refer to "society" as a more justifiable way of referring to yourself.
Regardless of it's truth, you're really saying that it'd be for the good of you.I'm aware morality is different for differing individuals, but what I am explaining is that there are people in society that if they don't adhere to a level of civility in regards to the innocent people, then there is only two outcomes for them. Death or forced labor.
You're definitely selling the "law and order" archetype (not the show, the alignment). It seems to be your comfort zone for explaining yourself, but I think it's a surface level distraction.
There was a father who's daughter was raped and killed by a pedophile, the jury voted the pedophile innocent so that that father could seek vengeance for his child. At the airport when the police were escorting the pedophile onto a plane, the father was there with a gun. He shot and killed the pedophile, dropped the gun, and put his hands up. That kind of justice is what I believe in.
This sort of thing has moments where it could be construed as "Justice", but once vigilanteism is justified the following cases serve to get increasingly murky. These stories also serve as embellished exceptions when compared to those who make it about other things that are otherwise being ignored for the sake of the argument's passion.
It takes having a system that would punish vigilantes to force them to be desperate enough to go to those measures. The desperation however is something in common on both sides of the fence, and many criminals are the way they are because of a conditioned sense of a similar desperation. Justification behind violent acts is also a slippery slope that gets flimsier with repeated use, as the person through familiarity will begin to think of those brands of solutions before other "more complicated" paths.
Allowing such a model to be the norm is how you cause future problems down the line. It's only "Justice" at first, then it becomes people simply doing as they please for their own perverted sense of it.
I'm just a bit more radical in that I want to make them feel the pain that they inflict on others.
They may be proxying a pain they already know when they do these things to others, if it's an abuse modeler type. Whatever pain you're giving them would be at best repeating themselves and at worst completely missed.
This is more about you getting off to their suffering once you've been granted permission. "Being granted permission" is a dangerous thing to use as justification, and has been shown for it's less immediate dangers with The Milgram Experiment and The Stanford Prison Experiment.
Perhaps that makes me corrupt. If I were to be tried one day, and the masses wanted me dead, then I accept said fate.
You structure a lot of your rhetoric around permissions and laws, when those to me sound more like justifications for deeper realer reasons.