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A Q for the bored

MikeDamone
MikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781
edited July 2014 in Tug Tavern
I read that Sandusky's son is going go on Oprah and tell about how he was abused by Sandusky. It got me thinking... It is known that victims of abuse often become abusers. Would there be any sympathy if any of Sandusky's victims were ever identified as molesters themselves? If Sandusky was a victim of abuse would there be any sympathy for him?

I wonder because obviously child molesters are vilified and we wish nothing but a cruel and painful death for them, and their victims are treated very sympathetically and with great care. When victim turns into victimizer due to the abuse, is sympathy given to the victim negated?

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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 70,098 Founders Club
    that is a great question and speaks to the need to discern truth rather than to judge it.
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  • AZDuck
    AZDuck Member Posts: 15,468
    Sounds to me like you're being a twister

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  • MikeDamone
    MikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781
    Swaye said:

    You forgot to add "asking for a fren."

    I didn't forget...
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  • Swaye
    Swaye Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 41,741 Founders Club
    But seriously, I feel bad for you if you get molestered. Really bad. I would even offer to shoot the molester, and mean it. However, if you then go molest a child, knowing how it fucked your entire world up, then I have little sympathy for you. And, I would shoot them as well. But, I'm an asshole.
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  • MikeDamone
    MikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781
    Swaye said:

    But seriously, I feel bad for you if you get molestered. Really bad. I would even offer to shoot the molester, and mean it. However, if you then go molest a child, knowing how it fucked your entire world up, then I have little sympathy for you. And, I would shoot them as well. But, I'm an asshole.

    Then you would go to jail for shooting someone....
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  • HuskyJW
    HuskyJW Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 15,484 Founders Club
    edited July 2014
    There isn't anything lower than hurting a child. But if you follow the same path and you know the pain and trauma it causes.....then I hope you DIAFF.

    That being said....My Doog quote of the day....I'd rather my 4 year old son showers at Penn State then go to UO.
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  • MikeDamone
    MikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781
    HuskyJW said:

    There isn't anything lower than hurting a child. But if you follow the same path and you know the pain and trauma it causes.....then I hope you DIAFF.

    That being said....My Doog quote of the day....I'd rather my 4 year old son showers at Penn State then go to UO.

    So no sympathy if the trauma caused by the molestation caused the victim to become a molester?

    What should be done with molestation victims?

    I found this in a study

    "Among 747 males the risk of being a perpetrator was positively correlated with reported sexual abuse victim experiences. The overall rate of having been a victim was 35% for perpetrators and 11% for non-perpetrators. Of the 96 females, 43% had been victims but only one was a perpetrator. A high percentage of male subjects abused in childhood by a female relative became perpetrators. Having been a victim was a strong predictor of becoming a perpetrator, as was an index of parental loss in childhood."

    bjp.rcpsych.org/content/179/6/482.full

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  • oregonblitzkrieg
    oregonblitzkrieg Member Posts: 15,288
    What about HH members who are abused by other poasters and then become abusive poasters themselves? Do you feel any sympathy for them?
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