A piece of mail arrived at my house recently and what it contained was so offensive I'm compelled to react to it. It was a sex offender notification pamphlet that, as far as I could tell, described an account in which yet more innocent victims have come to harm because of sickos like you. It described a 27 or 28 year old man who interacted with a 9 year old child in a sexual way and was then convicted of a "crime" as a result. I don't know the details of the incident, but even if there's more that is of significance than what is presented on the surface, this letter still applies.
Sex is not wrong. The value of sexual purity (including the sexual purity of children) is a distasteful value in the same way as is the value of racial purity or racial segregation. If all you were guilty of was an offensive belief, I'd merely want to avoid you, but what you do is so profoundly repugnant I'm morally obligated to communicate to you the disgust you so deserve. A person can have whatever beliefs they want, but when that person forces their beliefs on others with violence, then they are a bad person. I'm normally a fervent proponent of civil discourse, even on matters where opinions are severely disparate, but for someone as deplorable such as yourself, I see no point. You are less than an animal. No language could possibly be vitriolic enough to express how disparaging a person you are. In every age there are those who hold back progress towards a better world, and some are worse than others; you are among the worst. You are a linchpin in a structure that bars advancement of liberty for all members in the society to which you belong. Every reason I've ever heard for why pedophilia is wrong doesn't stand up to scrutiny, and when the standard reasons for its opposition are shown to not make any sense, further opposition takes on the form of some kind of philosophical game. Well this is no game. This is a serious matter which negatively affects many, many lives to an intensity almost unmatched by most any other kinds of life struggles. Opposition to pedophilia is nearly invariably grounded in the twisted, tortured logic that the sexual activity of children causes them harm. Even an animal is capable of expressing whether they like or dislike something; so much more so for a child of any age, so long as there is no threat of punishment for however it is they express. Trauma doesn't occur because of pleasure or reward or freedom; it occurs because of pain and punishment and the imposing of one's will upon another. Children are conditioned to react with trauma from the earliest of ages towards nakedness and, especially, towards sexual self-exploration by use of punishment. This training through punishment creates the illusion that the connection between child sexuality and trauma is a necessary one. After early childhood, the illusion is maintained indefinitely through threat of ostracism or punishment for not reacting with a deep sense of wrongness towards these sexual taboos. It might be possible for many innocent victims of this mindset to break free from this lie and of the barbarous ideas of sexual purity, but the unavoidable consequence of unjustifiable and brutal punishment for acting opposite to this delusion prevents almost anyone from doing so. The immense mental suffering of children and their lifelong struggle to cope with that psychic harm when they come to be involved in sexual activity with an adult is absolutely because of you and because of all those who work with and support you, but especially because of you. Cultures have existed wherein child sexuality was treated as a norm; for example, among some of the Oceanic peoples. That one fact is all the damning proof needed to demonstrate that the sexual activity of children does not carry some necessary link with psychic harm and to show that you are doing something very wrong. I could go on endlessly about how and why punishment for violation of sexual taboos is solely the thing that causes the mental harm you apparently think you are protecting children from, but if a failure of a human such as yourself can't be convinced by this evidence, nothing will. Your job places you in the closest proximity possible with the people that you hurt and yet you, presumably, refuse to see the harm you cause. You are causing harm where you perversely think you are doing good, but ignorance is no excuse for your horrible actions or your misguided beliefs. The expressions of support from those around you is no excuse either. That doesn't make it okay. What's so sad is you actually think you're doing the right thing, but you are not the hero; you're the bad guy. I have no doubt that you have helped many people by finding kidnappers and rapists, but no matter how much good you do, it doesn't make up for the evil that you do. What isn't required is to do good, as praiseworthy as that is; what is required is to not do evil. You are a miserable failure in this. You and everyone that works with you to support this indefensible worldview. I can't imagine how you sleep at night except through an endless capacity for self-deception. I wish there were some way you could be helped, but you're probably beyond help. If I thought it were possible for you to change for the better, my wording would be very, very different: there would not be an intense hatred to it. Anyone who shows contrition and proves their change of heart by maintaining that change over time can be forgiven, but I can't imagine someone in your position having a capacity for seeing the light. You are lost. There is something broken within you. You are an unnatural perversion. The use of violence as a means of getting what one wants is the purest form of evil, and you are the embodiment of that form. Your authority is illegitimate, as is the authority of any person assigned to public office wherein that authority is given to them by a public that does so for unjustifiable reasons. Any community that would use force and violence and fear to get what they want cannot be called a moral community; you have removed yourself from the moral community. You are nothing but a thug: bereft of a properly working moral compass and using violence to get what you want. You are a monster of the worst kind. You are not a man, but a beast: reacting only to your urges to get what you want. Your urges tell you to use fear and punishment to force as many people as you can to bend to your will. You prey upon those who have less power than you, using violence and fear to force your beliefs upon them. A belief that is acquired under threat of violence is not a belief that is acquired freely. In true Stockholm syndrome-like fashion, these vulnerable souls are manipulated into supporting you and into adopting your beliefs. Their freedom to choose their own values is held captive by you through fear and threat of violence. Your actions are sick, malicious and evil and I condemn you.
It is by coincidence, almost, that it is to you this letter is addressed. Were things a little different, it might have been someone else who held your position and whose name would have been on that pamphlet. Someone else upon which I would be heaping my disdain. But that doesn't make this any less personal. It isn't someone else that decided to pursue a career of hurting little children and pedophiles; it was you. And it is you, personally, that I hold responsible for the role you play in making this world a worser place. It is hard to do the right thing, but no consequence should ever be a deterrent from doing what is right. Opposing disgusting filth like you is one of the most just activities in this world. I only wish there were something more I could do than just heap upon you righteous anger in writing.
As long as there are people like you, this world will never be safe. Fuck you forever.
