Rejecting Apology II has generated a huge amount of response in the last day, some of which we can even publish without risking nausea in our readers.\u00a0 Check out the ‘recent comments’ section in the sidebar.<\/p>\n
A repeated argument is\u00a0that if a man wants to have sex with kids but doesn’t act on it then he’s ‘innocent’.<\/p>\n
Well,\u00a0 if we’re talking court of law, then of course that’s true.\u00a0 He hasn’t committed a crime, so he’s innocent of that crime. But we aren’t discussing legality we’re discussing morality and responsibility. And a man who is sexually attracted to children has the obvious moral responsibility to ensure he doesn’t harm them as a result of his inclination.\u00a0 He can only do that by staying away from them. The awful blurry world inhabited by Porlaverded, CuteyPie and their ilk, in which there are ‘good’ pedophiles (them) and ‘bad’ pedophiles (not them), is both dangerous and terminally dishonest. However much these ‘child-love’ types believe they aren’t harming any kids they consort with, however much they draw a line between their desires and behaviour and the ‘abusive’\u00a0 conduct\u00a0 of the ‘bad’ pedos,\u00a0 they’re just deluding themselves.\u00a0 And\u00a0 – the part that most concerns us – using the mythic image of Carroll to aid in this delusion.<\/p>\n
So, let”s state again \u2013 if, despite all evidence, <\/em>Lewis Carroll\u00a0truly was a pedophile, and if he befriended kids, won their affections, played with their minds, watched their nakedness, while letting them inevitably sense the inappropriateness of his approach, then even if he didn’t go any further,\u00a0 he abused those children. In fact being obliquely head-fucked by some person they love and trust\u00a0 is going to scar a kid more not less than the more overt\u00a0 stuff done by those\u00a0presumed ‘bad’ guys, who are at least honest about their intent.<\/p>\n Carroll scholars and enthusiasts need to show the deluded souls who (let’s not kid ourselves) haunt Carrollianism that this image they nurture of Carroll\u00a0 as ‘pedophilia incarnate and sanctified’\u00a0 is a lie. Not only is this justice for Carroll, it’s removing from them a powerful agent of their own self-justification.<\/p>\n Last time\u00a0we said this we were mailed by the LCSNA to ask\u00a0 for assistance in setting up a good Myth-FAQ.\u00a0\u00a0Not sure if they have pursued this any further, but if not – now’s the time. And maybe the LCS could follow suit?<\/p>\n Unless we really want this subterranean army of ‘good’ pedophiles to keep using the author of Alice<\/em> as their patron saint.<\/p>\n Ok, it’s a beautiful day, birds singing, sky blue, and we just hope this is the last time\u00a0 we have to write about this for a while.<\/p>\n \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rejecting Apology II has generated a huge amount of response in the last day, some of which we can even publish without risking nausea in our readers.\u00a0 Check out the ‘recent comments’ section in the sidebar. A repeated argument is\u00a0that if a man wants to have sex with kids but doesn’t act on it then […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,1,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-carroll-myth","category-uncategorized","category-wilful-myth-blindness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17WIo-37","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/contrariwise.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/contrariwise.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/contrariwise.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contrariwise.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contrariwise.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/contrariwise.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/contrariwise.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contrariwise.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contrariwise.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}