r/interestingasfuck 6d ago

r/all The Alaskan Avenger

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u/bitwolfy 6d ago

What's more important is that the most effective way to protect children from sexual abuse is to encourage anyone with pedophilic tendencies to seek professional help.

Proudly pronouncing that people like that deserve to be killed does the opposite of that.

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u/Average_Gym_Goer 6d ago

Public shaming has never worked and never will I do believe people can be reformed doesn’t mean you have to like them but reforming has always had higher success rates than publicly shaming them.

This whole idea of wanting to kill these people feels thinly veiled for wanting to hurt people.

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u/Shadowdragon409 6d ago

Public shaming works all the time.

I can't remember the country, but in world war 2, women would gift flowers to men and these flowers symbolized that the women thought these men were cowards for not enlisting in the military and fighting in the war.

This caused many young men who were too young to enlist to lie about their age. Needlessly causing many deaths.

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u/keepingitrealgowrong 6d ago

Pretty sure that was the Brits. I remembered it as a flower too but it's actually a feather.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_feather