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Originally Posted by jwb
I can only imagine what a Christian shill I would be called if I had posted this
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I'm still thoroughly willing to shoot the Pope in the head for doing nothing about this but the question is whether priests have a higher pedo percentage than the general populace and a good way to at least approach this would be to look at the rate of pedophilia in religious leaders in Protestantism, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, and any other religion that doesn't have a centralized leadership to cover up pedophilia.
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Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre
I don't think there is a proper statistic on this yet. Just as there isn't a proper statistic on sex trafficking, though there are better statistics on that. This is kind of a new thing that we are discovering.
I really don't want to do research on a half-cocked point when it's not really a hill I'm willing to die on.
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I imagine there are statistics out there that we're too lazy to look up, which is kind of the point. You need to at least try to look up the literature on the subject to make informed statements.
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Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre
Capitalism created Epstien. I don't know if that's the conclusion you wanted me to come to but that's kind of been something on my mind lately. Espstien only thrived as a child sex trafficker because capitalism put him in that position and gave him that power.
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Epstein could have and I'm sure did exist in any form of government/economics throughout history. It wasn't capitalism that covered up his crimes, it was powerful people. Or to be more specific, capitalism covered up his crimes in the same way any other form of government/economics would have covered up his crimes.
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Originally Posted by jwb
I could be wrong but I read it as him saying other forms of exploitation (such as of workers) are just as bad as explicitly sexual exploitation.
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I'm not gonna try to put words into OH's mouth but what I imagine he would try to say if he was as smart as I am is that exploitation of workers applies to exploitation of sex workers as well, and exploitation of workers can be both sexual and non-sexual and both are based on the power dynamics of capitalism and you can't solve either exploitation or sexual exploitation in capitalism without solving the inherent problems in the power dynamics of capitalism that will exist so long as capitalism exists.