Dé Céadaoin, Bealtaine 31, 2006

Too Short For Buttsex/Manufactured outrage, nihilism, and servitude

I'm sure you have all heard by now about the Sidney child molestor who was granted mercy by a local judge. First of all, I should state my belief that his sentence was too leniant and that Attorney General Bruning's appeal of the sentence is justified. Now let's get to what is really important.

Is it possible to suggest that there is fanaticism involved with the current anti-child molester pusch without being accused of being pro-child molestor? Let's be honest. There is a high degree of possibility that you accuse me of being such simply because I made the suggestion.

Consider the fact that the petite pervert's crimes our being highlighted on Fox News and its website. The earthquake in Indonesia that killed thousands was not. Consider the fact that a North Carolina woman felt the need to write a letter to today's Journal Star in order to lecture us over our lack of opposition to prepubesant penetration. I can only hope that she has no personal obligations; that she has devoted at least as much concern to her own state and local governments as to the misguided altruism of one of our judges. Consider the numorous letters to the editor about the increases rates of child molestation, when in fact the levels of reported child rape are decreasing. We are only more likely to hear about the incidents that do happen.
Have we reached a point where we are not allowed to suggest that the "natural" death of an adult is worse than the rape of a child? have we built a society that is so shallow and nihilistic, so concerned with being hard, that it can only express its love for good indirectly through its hatred of evil? There are hundreds of wrongful convictions and wrongful aquitals. At least they (presumably) got the verdict right in this case.
Do not live under the delusion that human criminals are the only disruption to an otherwise just universe. The world is absurd. "Justice" is a human abstraction that nature refuses to recognize. Whether one is a good or bad person has little or nothing to do with whether or not one will live a pleasent life. Cancer, AIDS, living to be 110 after you have seen everyone you've ever known leave before you. All of these ends are worse than anything Ted Bundy could do to you. Our fixation with human-caused suffering is childish and naive. I believe in good and evil people. But I despise the notion that the conflict between good and evil is fundamentally important to the universe.
But I am just a poor student that nobody listens to. So we will continue to pass residency restrictions that do nothing for either child safety or public safety in general. We will justify them by proudly stating our indiffrence to a molestor's comfort; whether or not anybody actually brought this up. We will pry into our neighbors personal histories and freely offer our own histories to them. We will gladly increase state power, and embrace authority for our protection. All this to advance the comforting lie that the world's suffering is contained solely in persons of flesh and bone who can be controlled.

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