"Pedophiles to launch political party"

The way he would (and I would imagine the way the pedophiles groups) go about normalizing it would go like this...

A) Separate a lust for children aged 13-18 from a lust for younger ones.

You immediately separate yourself from the "real sickos" out there who would prey on small children and distance yourself from them to the best of your abilities. He agreed that "pedophilia" as he defined it (sexual interests in prepubescent children) was sick and a real crime, etc but that he wasn't about that at all, he had a fetish for teenage girls and you can't get too upset about that, can you? This argument stresses the arbitrariness of age of consent laws and points out that every guy has made the occasional mistake of thinking a 14-year-old girls was older. Did that make you a "sicko" or a "pedo" when you did that? No, so why should he be considered one if he does it all the time and knowingly? How much different do fourteen and eighteen-year-old girls look sometimes? Sometimes you can't tell at all!

This was all a misdirection though because as much as he liked teenage girls (as well as young men and grown women. The man's sexual orientation wasn't easily defined) he also had a thing for little girls who were obviously prepubescent. This was all a way of misdirecting the argument away from what he really was attracted to and tried to focus it on the grayer areas that people can sympathize with to a degree (Age of consent laws are arbitrary).

You could argue (and I did a little bit) that this tactic has certain aspects of slippery slope, precision fallacy, red herring and features a couple of other logical fallacies but that's besides the point. I'm just trying to show you how it worked.

B) Find a new name for Pedophilia and its subcategories.

The biggest problem they have is that the word is so stigmatized. I'm amazed their already isn't a popular cute word to separate the pedophiles who like little children from the guys who have a fetish for teenage girls. Life needs euphemisms to cover the grim realities in it. Pedophilia is long overdue for some Newspeak that helps to redefine what you're talking about.

I'm too tired to remember all the other arguments he would make and I don't want to write a 2000 word post dissecting pedophile propaganda and rhetoric but I hope I showed some interesting tactics that can and no doubt will be used in the future.

Well, um, by definition, yeah.

lol @ "friends from rehab"

Hey, maybe give it 10-20 years for the incestuous agenda to take root and the majority of you could be calling people, who have an ewwwww reaction to incest, incestaphobes.

It'll start by people starting to talk more often and openly about incest, and then the media will try to portray people interested in incest as victims. After that all the great historical figures who have had incestuous relationship will be honored (and even many who haven't, but new studies will come out claiming they have). Then the target will be people morally opposed to incest and any scientific evidence giving it a bad rap. Everything will be done to make them look bad or false. Then the activist groups will try to get lots of funding and celebrity endorsements. Next laws will change. People will be forced to attend divisity training if they even slightly mention what they really think about incest, because it might make people in incestuous relationships feel 'unsafe.'

This is all hypothetical of course.

-- A Nairn (moreta...), May 3rd, 2006 11:24 AM. (moretap) (link)

OK OK, maybe not.

But srlsly:

From the two or three known pedophiles I've met in my life ...

Really? Two or three? An even dozen? Can't remember?

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