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Originally Posted by CDSmith
Interesting point, and although you're right, I must clarify that I saw no "CP" on that forum. What caused the outrage was mainly their very existance, and the fact that it was a large group of people basically talking about incest, their love of incest, and having sex with their kids, family members etc.
I admit I didn't look around too much, but what threads of theirs I did click on I saw no CP posted, nor any talk of anyone getting their kids into porn. It wasn't about porn, it was about incest.
No less disturbing though.
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i personally don't get creeped out by it. i think its unhealthy and wrong and usually see people doing that stuff as trying to rationalize their own behaviors. (note.. i was never molested) - people who are victims of sexual abuse at a young age usually become attracted to similar acts as a defense mechanism.
this is an interesting subject with me... and one i have actually spent a great deal of time pondering in recent months.
i don't really feel outrage at things like people do. in fact, i had a long, serious talk with myself on that very issue when i created medical adoptions[.]com and the e-mails started flowing in from adoption agencies, adoptees, adopting parents etc. expressing disgust and demanding the site be taken offline because it was offensive.
its hard to put the outrage into perspective. it was very surreal. everyone was deeply offended and i was forced to ask myself how i felt about that and of course, to ask the one logical question "am i hurting people or causing them pain"
as i started clicking through the referral links, reading forums, reading emails etc, i began to realize how the "outrage" is not something someone does to you, but something you feel when some event or whatever trigger there might be, drags those issues you have back to the surface. but those things we feel anger towards, usually aren't the problem, that anger and outrage is most often a symptom. i think there is a difference between a reasonable reaction and unreasonable degree of "outrage" however.. by that i mean there is a difference between being upset that a soldier throws a puppy off a cliff and thinking "that was horrible and a little upsetting" and feeling enough rage that you want to see him killed.
i think it would be a little disturbing to see a forum where people are discussing such a thing as you mentioned. i wouldn't be surprised. actually, i am sure there probably are quite a few places right now discussing the same thing or chat rooms etc. for the most part, i see it as disturbed people doing disturbing things. i don't really care enough about changing the world to care or crusade against something to feel any strong reaction. i don't feel any particular sense of satisfaction or purpose in knowing i made a difference (or believing i did). for the most part, i just see it as people with issues, grouping together to cope with, understand, rationalize and defend behaviors, urges, feelings and things they've done/do so they can make sense of their own lives and struggle through another day.
thankfully, i see i meet only a few of the diagnostic criteria for sociopath.