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Hi,
I wanted to understand more about the stigma and bad treatment of MAPs annd whether it has any impact to the protection of minors and if so, how?
If MAP’s were accepted in society and treated nicely and respected and valued and we were MAP inclusive society, would this create a safer environment for children?

This is not really debatable, since if MAPs were confident enough to come out, their activities would be more visible. There would be more choice as to whether parents or minors interact with MAPs.

What conservatives fear is a diversity and equality culture where MAPs cannot be challenged, and there is awkwardness around not letting them near their kids. They fear being forced to bake a cake with the MAP Flag on it.

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Jim Burton wrote: Fri Feb 21, 2025 11:51 pm https://wiki.yesmap.net/wiki/Special_Ar ... f_hysteria

Wow, I tried to stop myself from scrolling any further but there's just so many absurd things that are on record, I imagine there's so much more out there. Just absolutely absurd.

One of the worst things that you can do to a group from a sociological perspective is force them into secrecy. It creates an environment where harmful behavior isn't challenged, power ends up concentrated to the detriment of others, and it becomes even more difficult to track and predict what they're going to do.

If you believe that AMSC is objectively harmful — forcing MAPs underground increases the likelihood of AMSC; increases the likelihood of grooming gangs; increases the likelihood of people getting desperate and going out and abducting or worse; makes MAPs more likely to engage with unwilling family members out of opportunity, with no way to know that this particular person is a MAP.

If you believe that AMSC isn't objectively harmful — forcing MAPs underground reduces the opportunity to challenge legitimately harmful behavior; increases the likelihood of exploitative communities forming; and can make perfectly normal MAPs who would otherwise have a healthy relationship with a minor do something more drastic and harmful out of desperation.

Does stigmatizing mans impact the protection of women?

I know there are Adults that hurts Adults but there are good people that wouldn't hurt others.

It could be the same when it comes to MAPs and Children.

So treating badly different people is not the way to a peaceful world.

Bookshelf wrote: Sat Feb 22, 2025 9:28 am If you believe that AMSC is objectively harmful — forcing MAPs underground increases the likelihood of AMSC; increases the likelihood of grooming gangs; increases the likelihood of people getting desperate and going out and abducting or worse; makes MAPs more likely to engage with unwilling family members out of opportunity, with no way to know that this particular person is a MAP.

If you believe that AMSC isn't objectively harmful — forcing MAPs underground reduces the opportunity to challenge legitimately harmful behavior; increases the likelihood of exploitative communities forming; and can make perfectly normal MAPs who would otherwise have a healthy relationship with a minor do something more drastic and harmful out of desperation.

While I fully agree with this, for most of society though they see this and their takeaway is all MAPs are a ticking time-bomb and thus a threat.

The recent "Pro-Reform: Thoughts on 'The Push'" perspective puts it well as it can be applied to different groups of people, not just MAPs.

... if you hound any group of people, isolate them, push them to the brink, and leave them with nothing to lose, you can expect some of these people to become a serious danger to society. This is what is being done right now to MAPs; even those who have not yet been outed may live in abject misery, fear, and terror.

Anyone who claims to want to prevent harmful behavior should be able to stand by the idea that MAPs need to be less stigmatized.