Yeah, surveillance hasn't made people more accepting of human flaws. I do think the combination of virtually being able to mind read people, without the necessary self-reflection and suspension of judgement may end up destroying everything. Society has gotten less tolerant and more puritanical in many ways. There's no excuse to be "evil". Think of cancel culture: you prevent a person from working anywhere or having any associates, there's never any forgiveness, just a never ending hate mob.zosen wrote: Thu Jan 23, 2025 6:47 pm That's exactly my thought for the last few months. I think people, who downplay the risk of it, underestimate what the future holds in terms of finding out who is a MAP. Mass surveillance with the help of AI can basically lead to arrests through simple search prompts. Might even go so far that we will have mandatory brain scans looking for specific "pedophilic" parts, it wouldn't even matter how many people would technically fall under those conditions, it's all about taking control of a dangerous group after all. Seriously, it might sound a bit exaggerated, but that would be all the result of a slow process we possibly experience already now.
I'd say in some ways we are even more universally hated than the Jews in Nazi Germany. There were, although not enough, some Germans that stood up against Nazism; and Jews were well integrated into society prior to the rise of Nazism. Where are those people that would loudly condemn our persecution? Where are we accepted? The help we get is begrudging. It's a side effect of supporting prison reform, opposing the death penalty, or supporting civil liberties.Fascism is on the rise again, and it might become more evil than it ever was. We present the perfect target for being the ultimate scapegoat. Most conspiracy theories about MAPs are basically the same that once were used for Jews. The "woke" culture, that currently finds it end, has left a mass of people that lowered their tolerance towards sexual minorities significantly. The moral panic about anything that possibly "violates" sexual consent is already on its peak. What is the main reason of LBGTQ being considered as a danger and therefore not being widely accepted? It's all about the sexualization of children and normalizing pedophilia after all. Even if the discourse is still very quiet about us, it only needs one push and we become the new cultural phenomena that must be eradicated.
Of course. Trump doesn't care about rule of law, people's rights, or even national sovereignty. He will use everything in his power to centralize authority, and enact laws that are completely absurd. If he's willing to try to get rid of birth right citizenship, does anyone believe he wouldn't be willing to put thought-crimes into law? FFS, he's talking about trying to take control of Greenland.Trump's America is probably the optimal starting point for all this, as it's also the most hostile country to MAPs already. He advocates for death penalty and there are voices who demand criminal pedophiles to fall under this category. Who will stop them expanding their own definition for who is a criminal pedophile? Why does no one consider pedophilia becoming a crime on its own in the future? All what's happening in the world right now is truly scary and especially for us. I hope for the best, as I'm usually optimistic about things, but in this case I have a very bad feeling.
If the world survives the Trump presidency, then hopefully the pendulum will swing in the opposite direction. I don't know though, I feel like the general public is too far gone, and it may take an absolutely massive catastrophe before people can be begin to understand how fucked things are.