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In reply to the discussion: Josh Duggar Admits Molestation, Resigns from Family Research Council [View all]brett_jv
(1,245 posts)Committed by the one's who were victimized ... we STILL don't want to show any mercy towards the victim of the abuse ... who goes on to abuse ... as they were themselves abused.
In fact, the fact that we KNOW this vicious circle 'happens' is at least a part of why we consider this sort of abuse to be a 'bad thing'. Because you make MORE little child abusers ... by abusing children.
It really does amaze me, though, the consistent lack of compassion. We all 'allow for' and 'accept' various other sorts of atypical behavior that follow from abuse ... for example, if a previously abused kid ends up strung out on hard drugs we all go 'there, there, not really your fault' because we KNOW ... abuse f***s kids up.
But if the 14 year old abuse victim gropes his sleeping sister's mammary glands, well then it's BY GOD STRING THE SICK BASTARD UP BY HIS BALLS! HE'S OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW BETTER!
Look I'm not saying this dude WAS abused (although I'd argue the entire 'way of life' of these people constitutes a form of it), but there doesn't ever seem to be even a consideration of what ANYBODY who even vaguely resembles a 'sex offender' ... has been through themselves, and of what have might have 'made them that way' ... on this website.
Sorry to be all 'meta', but I find it disturbing, personally. I thought we were a bit more ... enlightened, as a whole. I guess the vitriol stems at least in part from the fact this guy is 'one of THEM', rather than 'one of US'.