Has society reached peak pedophile hatred?

[Scorchingwilde]

Normally, I think that the situation will continue to worsen for several decades before it starts to improve, that only when the most exaggerated hysteria has ruined millions and millions of lives and it becomes absolutely clear that persecuting age-gap relationships causes much more suffering than allowing them, people will react and rebel.

But I also remember reading that witch hunts ended shortly after it became common to sentence wealthy people. While poor peasant women were being burned, they went on for centuries, but curiously, when wealthy families also began to be in danger, it all ended. So... who knows? With the Epstein case splashing the most powerful people in the world, perhaps those people will decide that this new kind of witch hunt is not in their best interests either, and that will be the final step in ending it.

That's genuinely interesting to think about. I certainly hope it will end swiftly because of this, but then again, I also know that economic conditions continue to worsen for the working class, and the level of resentment could lead to major political upheaval or an increasing descent into fascism, in which case we'll remain scapegoated either by ordinary people with the Epstein scandal fresh in mind, or pedo-hating fascist thugs in sheer denial over their own leaders' involvement.