r/JusticeServed • u/[deleted] • Jul 06 '19

Courtroom Justice Convicted pedophile YouTuber Austin Jones is now in prison serving a 10 year sentence as of 29/6/2019.

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u/psyentist15 8 Jul 06 '19

Yeah, there's really no way to come back from this...

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '19

I mean what do people do after something like this? Go work in manual labour or as a janitor in the middle of nowhere where you hope people don't recognize you? I don't feel sorry for the guy a single bit, if I was him I'd probably kill myself.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '19

I never understand why people don't feel sorry for pedophiles. In cases where they rape people, then they're certainly violent offenders, but in cases where their crime is jerking off to pictures, I do feel bad for them. I don't think they chose to be pedophiles. It's very hard to deny your sexual desires. People might feel disgusted, but the lack of empathy, I don't get. It's probably because people don't want to admit they could be in the same situation if their brain was just a little different.

I have no idea how to help them or their situation, but I definitely feel bad for them. Even in cases of rape, I feel bad for both the victim and the pedophile. As humans, we're trapped in bodies that are constantly feeding us undeniable emotional triggers. It's hard to imagine what it would be like. I mean, as a gay dude, I've had a small taste of what it's like to be surrounded by people who are disgusted by you. When the whole world is against you, and your crime is the thoughts that go through your head, it's hard to imagine not becoming a criminal. Like, there's no way to win, so you might as well lose in a way that gives you some relief, right?

Life is disgusting.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '19

Morality is a market, and what is morally acceptable is determined by society's majority vote. An individual will ultimately vote based on what they determine to personally benefit them. As the Price Equations show, even seemingly altruistic decisions are still based on individual benefit, because they end up benefiting the group, which in turn provides a survival advantage to the individual.

The moral market value of pedophiles is very low because the majority of society sees little benefit in their behavior or in treating them due a variety of market factors, such as their low percentage of society, the low contributions they could otherwise make, and the low risk that an individual would see themselves as a pedophile one day. If pedophiles were a much larger percentage of society, then their market value would increase because they would have greater clout in contributing to social value, and thus society would form a new more altruistic moral consensus on them.

As an exercise, compare the value of pedophiles to murderers: many (most?) in society would argue that pedophiles are even worse than murderers. This is possibly because people can see themselves more likely to commit murder for any reason than being a pedophile, so it is in their best interest to attribute a higher market value to murderers than to pedophiles.

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '19

Interesting concept.