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@Miwojedk#12566 I don’t understand what you mean. Are you saying that “useless” degrees like “fat studies” are mocked regularly online, because I don’t think that means anything besides contrarians/edgelords/anti-SJW’s need something to point to instead of concrete policy from the left.

No, I am saying that they do not connect with the majority of the population. Seemingly useless courses offered by universities have been mocked for quite some time and the concept of higher education being on a decline (both educationally and intellectually) is no younger than the supposed liberalization of universities.

Courses offered by universities have been the target of mockery by many parties, including (but not limited to) "contrarians, edgelords, and/or anti-social justice warriors." Universities have been a target for many years because those who reside in them for long periods of time have a tendency to act intellectually superior and, as previously mentioned, because of the narratives pushed by some academic disciplines regardless of whether or not they are respected by other fields in their particular branch of higher education.

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Because you continue to obfuscate and not answer my question. You have yet to answer why you couldn’t simply point to a similar culture/country like the ones I listed instead of attempting to smear my argument by pointing to a socially-backwards country. My question is not “why did you point to Nigeria”.

I could have pointed to a similar country like the ones you have listed, but I didn't, because they did not have an age of consent law that neared the age of eleven. For the sake of demonstrating that a modern-day nation has an age of consent law which nears such an age, I pointed to Nigeria: a country that sets the age at eleven years old for children(?) (I'm not sure what that country's standards are -- in my book, they are children) that can consent to sex with another party.

If this isn't what you're asking, you need to phrase your question in a clearer manner. From the likes of it, nobody's trying to obfuscate anything except for you.

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You’re still being obtuse, so I will continue to explain that “copping one’s balls off” is a synonym for general castration, at least that’s how I used it in this context, and yet again you’re trying to direct this conversation over to a semantics game. Whether that is literally removing your ballsack or simply injecting one with a chemical to hinder the production of x.

I have never heard of the term "general castration" or the phrase "copping one's balls off" (to "cop" means to catch or obtain something; figuratively, "cop" means to "strike" something, like a bearing). Can you source any of this?

The distinction between chemical castration and surgical castration is not semantic. "Literally removing the ballsack" and the process of chemical castration do not have identical effects.

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Do you advocate for a social stigma against transgenderism or homosexuality? How’d that go for the last 100s of years? The social stigma against pedophiles should be directed towards child molesters. Those people should indeed get punished and get help for their urges. You’re simplying this issue so much that the only choice for you seems to be chemical castration. I wouldn’t be surprised if you told me that depressed people should simply stop being unhappy.

It should come as no surprise to you that my opinions regarding pedophilia are rather simple, and bear little concern for their sexual livelihood after treatment, considering I only fostered this discussion by answering a question you posed to another user in this thread.

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@Miwojedk#12461 Can you give an example of an “extreme narrative”?

In recent times, universities have been known to offer courses which have been highly critized and seen as "poor scholarship decisions." These fields offered in the form of courses by various universities include "gender studies," "fat studies," and "queer studies," just to name a few. (More academic journals are specified by the article on the Sokal Squared scandal which makes a case for the increasing prevalence of "postmodern jargon" and "academic-babble" in some courses offered by universities.) In addition to the message of these articles being almost entirely nonsensical, concepts to the likes of "fat studies" are rather extreme and do not connect with the majority of the population. Rather, they are made fun of.

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This is why I continue to ask you why you didn’t point to a similar society like the countries I listed in Europe if your intention was to simply point to a country with a low age of consent. Just because you didn’t explicitly say something doesn’t mean that your words can’t tacitly imply something.

Now you're just repeating yourself despite the fact that I have continually answered this question.

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The political or geographic situation of Nigeria is irrelevant to why the country was referenced; Nigeria has the youngest age of consent in the world.

I mentioned Nigeria because it has the "youngest age of consent in the world," and no European country has an age of consent law that nears the age of eleven. If you believe that I am intentionally making an implication about African countries, that's your opinion and there's nothing I can do about that.

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I think it is disingenious to omit the whole quote: “Scholars have debated the role or extent of pederasty, which is likely to have varied according to local custom and individual inclination. Athenian law, for instance, recognized both consent and age as factors in regulating sexual behavior.” Your quote excludes the wording that this is a debated topic by scholars, and not a consensus as your quote makes it seem. One might even call it cherry-picking.

My quote included that which was pertinent to the argument, because the original quote does not imply that there was no consensus of opinion that Athenian law "recognized both consent and age as factors in regulating sexual behavior." If there were truly no consensus on that subject, the sentence regarding Athens would not be separate from that which concerns how "scholars have debated the role or extent of pederasty."

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When you cite a quote saying that it varied from city state to city state doesn’t refute my point when I recognize that, yes, it likely happened to minors as well.

I don't take issue with this. It is this statement which I am inclined to refute from a historical standpoint, concerning the political autonomy of Greece and how the degree of pederasty differed between cities subject to its rule:

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I never claimed that it didn’t happen to prepubescent boys, but I did assert that (perhaps) in a majority of cases it was indeed a teen.

To assert that [perhaps] in a majority of cases it favored either party places you in a state of abeyance, considering there were no records kept of those who were abused and it has already been established that certain territories of Ancient Greece exerted autonomy with respect to the laws concerning this subject.

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Removing one’s balls is a common synonym for castration. Chemical castration does indeed involve mutilation of the body, which I why I said I was against it instead of getting treatment for an individual suffering from this illness.

Chemical castration is regarded by the majority of sources as a form of castration by way of chemical injection. The act of "removing one's balls" refers to surgical castration, and chemical castration does not involve acid as previously mentioned.

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Chemical castration is the use of drugs to lower the production of hormones in your testicles.

Indonesia has already passed a "chemical castration law" for convicted pedophiles. I understand the distinction you have made between child molesters and pedophiles, and support the idea of offering a process which will "lower the production of hormones in [their] testicles" to pedophiles because it will reduce an individual's libido and diminish their sex drive.

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The solution should be treatment, and if that was not useful, then we can perhaps start to talk about forced castration.

If the process of castration diminishes the sex drive of somebody who is at a risk of offending, how is that not a form of treatment?

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you demonstrate a one-sided view on the scenario, and perhaps even a misguided view on mental illness as a whole.
There’s a reason why homosexuals have stayed in the closet until recently and why many have killed themselves due to the social stigma.

There is (and should continue to be) a social stigma against pedophiles in order to discourage them from any form of public participation until they are no longer attracted to children, which can be done by eliminating (or severely lowering) their sex drive. The social stigma against pedophiles is a natural reaction against something which can be physically and emotionally harming to children. Nobody should be "attracted" to a child in a sexual manner.

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@Miwojedk#12353 I agree with the first part, but I don’t understand how would you amend this issue (if it could even be called an issue).

I believe this to be an issue on the basis that increased polarization between urbanized and rural counties in the United States, if brought to such a degree, would almost certainly lead to a political fracture between regions depending on their lenience. Those who are "pushed" to the political right usually do so in response to agitation on behalf of the political left, particularly in response to extreme narratives published by academics which do not necessarily contrast with the generally moderate public, while self-identified "leftists" usually rank "right-wing extremists" as among the most urgent crises in our country. As for your argument regarding political labels, I believe that Americans who identify politicians having anything to do with democratic socialism as "far-left" demonstrates a considerable hostility to the shift towards liberalism in America in the minds of some voters.

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And you point being? My point was that it was absurd to point to a socially-conservative country from Africa versus pointing to similar cultures/societies like Western Europe because that would certainly be misleading in that you (whether intenitonally or not) implied that only “backwards” cultures and countries like Nigeria have the age of consent below 18.

Nigeria has the youngest age of consent in the world. "A person who commits an offence of defilement with a child aged eleven years or less shall upon conviction be sentenced to imprisonment for life." (Section 7, Provision 2, Sexual Offences Act Bill 2013.)

The political or geographic situation of Nigeria is irrelevant to why the country was referenced; Nigeria has the youngest age of consent in the world. I can't tell if you're intentionally undermining the point regarding this statistic by asserting what I was "trying to say" even though nothing of the sort was remotely mentioned in my post.

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I don’t care what historical studies you reference when I was simply going off the consensus written on the Wikipedia article in which you linked. I never claimed that it didn’t happen to prepubescent boys, but I did assert that (perhaps) in a majority of cases it was indeed a teen.

If you are of the persuasion that Wikipedia is the be-all and end-all for historical consensus, then I am willing to entertain that by citing various elements of the same article: "[the] extent of pederasty [...] is likely to have varied according to local custom and individual inclination," which goes on to exemplify Athenian law as recognizing age as factorial thus implying that laws for other cities of Ancient Greece were lacking in this regard; "[in the modern world] prepubescent and adolescent children are not socially equal to adults, and abusers emotionally manipulate the children they victimize."

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I would argue that we should seek treatment for their illness before mutilating their body. Not all pedophiles want to rape children, and I think it’s sad if the first thing to do would be to castrate them because of the stigma against them. Nobody is going to seek “treatment” if the thing you do is remove their balls or throw acid on their pussy.

Chemical castration does not entail the "removal of their [genitalia]" and would aim to decrease the sexual drive of a pedophile. The purpose of such a treatment would be to prevent somebody that does not want to hurt anyone from acting upon an urge so vile and detrimental to children. In short, decreasing the sexual drive of pedophiles and other offenders not only aims to remedy someone of their own illness, however seeks to make these individuals useful for society after undergoing a certain therapeutic routine.

I would not want any sort of "pedophile" around my child, or anyone else's child (if they had any significant sexual drive or were "attracted" to children).

@Miwojedk#12261 Chemical castration.

Addendum: Why aren't these one-liner discussions being held in a voice chat, or somewhere more productive than the forum? I feel like it would at least make for something more entertaining.

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@Miwojedk#12236 The study referenced in the article is including the single question asking respondents to self-identify their political orentation as far left, liberal, moderate, conversative or far right. I won’t go into depth on why mixing economic policy and value policy on a questionaire is silly, but liberal does not necessairly mean one is on the left in terms of economic policy. To further expand: what defines “far-left”, liberalism, conservatism, and “far-right” is up to each individual being surveyed. Is a social democrat advocating for a minimum wage and collective bargaining a “far-leftist”? If compared to US politicians, then most definitely, but compared to the average US citizen, not so much (and especially not if compared to Europe), but generally: Americans don’t understand formal political labels, which explains why a big chunk of self-proclaimed libertarians / conservatives are in favour of a single-payer system. It would be much more interesting to examine in detail the political views of the faculty vs. students and afterwards grouping people into each category.

I am inclined to agree that Americans do not understand formal political labels, however in the context of appending formal political labels (such as "far-left," "liberal," "moderate," "convervative," or "far-right"), I am confident that the majority of citizens and university freshmen surveyed for their political beliefs can reliably assign themselves either to the political left or to the political right with a considerable degree of reliability. A "social democrat advocating for a minimum wage and collective bargaining" may be considered "far-left" to a politician, and I would agree that a good portion of Americans in urban cities would not place that same character as "far-left," however the majority of Americans residing in rural areas are those to which the aforementioned politician is appealing when they assign democratic socialism as being on the "far-left." The shift towards liberalism in America comes with increased polarization between urbanized and rural counties in the United States, which means that academia is becoming increasingly detached from much of the country as it continues to identify with liberal politics (and will likely become more liberal in the future, if the information collected on professors indicates anything about the direction in which universities are heading).

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@Miwojedk#12236 I have a hard time understanding how this is meant as a direct response to what I said in my previous comment. This is not a response to anything I said in my previous comment. I asked why didn’t you point to Scandinavia or just half of Europe as an example instead of a socially-regressive country like Nigeria? The fact that you point to this country specifically makes me think that you’re being disingenious.

I assumed that you would've made the connection by understanding why I referenced a nation which has "the youngest age of consent in the world" as opposed to "Scandinavia or just half of Europe as an example [of comparatively young age of consent laws]" when none of those European nations had age of consent laws that neared the age of 11.

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@Miwojedk#12236 I made it quite clear that this is not a topic that I am knowledgeable of, so I don’t think it is productive to continue this part of our discussion. I also mentioned that I don’t think this has anything to do with the topic at hand.
I linked you to a reference in the same Wikipedia article you previously mentioned wherein it was stated that pederasty in ancient Greece was a socially acknowledged romantic relationship between an adult male and a younger male, where the younger male was usually in his teens. I acknowledged that it certainly happened to prepubescent boys, so I don’t even get why you’re continuing the conversation. I cited a source stating that the younger male was usually a teen, and that’s all.

I am continuing this discussion because you see a need to continue implying that pederasty habitually involved a younger male "usually in his teens" when various historical studies taken on the subject show that there was a regular variance in the age of boys made to participate in these relationships, if not to the extent of a social custom, as demonstrated by inquires made into these phenomena, let alone the etymology of the word "pederasty." (Sources are provided in my previous reply.) If you truly know nothing of this subject, then why do you continue to entertain it? Clearly, we do not agree on the topic's relevance to the discussion at hand, nor is there a shared interest in the history behind this subject.

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@Miwojedk#12164 The fact of the matter is that students have (almost) always been more liberal than their professors and the general public. And of course professors have become more - liberal -over the past years. a natural tendency also seen in society as a whole, with the University in front.

If you read the article linked in the post to which you replied: college freshmen surveyed by the Higher Education Research Institute were "much more likely to refer to themselves as "moderate" than as liberal or conservative." While there has been a rise in students who identify themselves as "liberal" over the past twenty years, it has been less dramatic than "the increase in liberalism among professors."

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The fact that you point to a socially-regressive country like Nigeria is even more reason for me to assume that you’re being obtuse/insincere to somehow construe it as only staunchly conservative countries having a low sexual age of consent. Why not point to the fact that average (sexual) age of consent in Europe (or the Western world for that matter) is 16-17 years old?

Nigeria has the youngest age of consent in the world. "A person who commits an offence of defilement with a child aged eleven years or less shall upon conviction be sentenced to imprisonment for life." (Section 7, Provision 2, Sexual Offences Act Bill 2013.)

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Of course this is not to say that it would be morally justified for a 40-year old man to have sexual relations with a 15-year old, and it is indeed looked down upon in these countries, but that wasn’t the point I was making – I was merely stating that there is a distinction to be made between an adult male (>30) having relations with a 15-year old vs. an adult male (>30) having relations with a 6-year old.

This reply understates the extent to which pederasty was practiced in Ancient Greece, and some laws from the time address children as young as twelve being "engaged" in relationships with grown men. Because romantic relationships between men and boys were not considered to be immoral, there have been depictions of younger boys being courted by middle-aged men.

I fail to see the point you are making, considering historical pederastic (and archaic homosexual) relationships took place between prepubescent children and middle-aged men, while also including children who had approached or passed the Greek standard of puberty.

"The archetypal homosexual relationship was that between a childlike or prepubescent boy and a mature man. The contact had strong paternal overtones, and it involved affectionate response from the child partner and mild sexual response from the pubescent partner." (Chapter 5, Types of Homosexualities, L. Houston.)

"Pederasty, παιδεραστία, paiderastia; "love of boys," derives from the combination of παίδ- (the Greek term for boy- or child) with ἐραστής (Greek for lover)." "paiderastía from παιδεραστής (paiderastḗs, “pederast”), from παῖς (paîs, “child, son, boy”) + ἐραστής (erastḗs, “lover”), from ἔραμαι (éramai, “to lοve”)." (Etymology, Wikitionary.)

"For instance, [Symonds in A Problem in Modern Ethics] insists on asking, “how far … instincts are capable of being communicated by contagion” and emphasises [sic] that the prepubescent individual is open to influences that might result in sexuality “be[ing] perverted into a false channel”. This insistent return to questions of influence has to do with the fact that Symonds held conflicting views about the causes of same-sex desire. More importantly, he believed same-sex desire in ancient Greece to have been acquired rather than congenital." (Funke J. "We Cannot Be Greek Now": Age Difference, Corruption of Youth and the Making of Sexual Inversion.)

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@Miwojedk#12117 However, this is ignoring the fact that general acceptance for homosexuality (that’s not even to mention LGBTQ+) was far from a normality. I want to make sure I don’t put words in your mouth, but if you meant that academic research is indeed being censored due to the inherent political nature in LGBTQ+-related research, then I don’t understand why research coming from less-accepting nations wouldn’t be publishing this research, unless you’re of the opinion that academic scholars in KSA or Nigeria are all liberals wanting to further the gay agenda.

During the period through which "homosexuality" (homophilia) became prevalent in media and politics, I fully agree that the layman would generally reject the aforementioned "movement," however it goes without saying that scientific communities do not originate from identical sources to those of average citygoers, and are more likely to have liberal alliances based on what we know about beneficiaries. Professors have become strikingly more liberal over the past twenty years and there have always been recorded tensions between universities, their students, and governments.

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@Miwojedk#12117 I will admit that I am not well-enoughed versed in this subject to speak in detail about the prevelance of child (0-13)-adult male relations, but I think that there should be made a clear distinction between an adult male raping a 7-year old and an adult male “raping” a 15-year old. Raping is in inverted commas because the age of consent is different from country to country, and some do define 15-year olds today as legally competent to consent to sexual acts.

This reply understates the extent to which pederasty was practiced in Ancient Greece, and some laws from the time address children as young as twelve being "engaged" in relationships with grown men. Because romantic relationships between men and boys were not considered to be immoral, there have been depictions of younger boys being courted by middle-aged men.

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Homosexual relations between a man and a boy; homosexual anal intercourse, usually with a boy or younger man as the passive partner.

For you to put the word "raping" in quotations somewhat downplays the issue at hand. There is no question in my mind that a fifteen-year old boy cannot submit to the kind of act described above, especially at the hands of a grown man. Certain nations have laws which permit this, but certain nations (such as Nigeria) set the age of consent at 11, which is equally unacceptable.

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@redeastwood#12052 This thread dehumanises LGBT individuals by presenting them as simply a number on a fact sheet. Show some more compassion for the humans behind those figures.

This thread does no such thing. Rather, citing legitimate academic studies and "presenting [communities] as simply a number on a fact sheet" allows for the fabric of those communities to be quantified (i.e. how prevalent are predators among the homosexual community?) thus leading to discussions about the very nature of that fabric (i.e. why are predators so prevalent among the homosexual community?) which should only be regarded as beneficial for any community, as opposed to "dehumanizing." It has no regard for the individual, unless you are delving into an argument about the moral objections to "homosexuality" which is of no direct relevance to these statistics.

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Miwojedk I asked the individual above as to why they would assert that their linked study claimed that homosexuals are more prone to child molestation, when that is in fact not what said study examined. The study examined the commonality of child abuse (child molestation) in straights vs homosexual children.

Determining whether or not (or why) homosexuals are more prone to child molestation is avoided in the written conclusions of several academic journals which concede that "the resulting proportion of true pedophiles among persons with a homosexual erotic development is greater than that in persons who develop heterosexually," however continue to assert that the aforementioned information does not indicate that androphilic (homophilic) men would have a greater propensity to offend against children. It should be mentioned that the majority of studies which avoid this conclusion were published after the "homosexual liberation" movement spanning the mid-seventies and eighties, while the majority of studies which make the conclusion that androphilic (homophilic) men would have a greater propensity to offend against children were published before said "liberation." In conclusion, the likelihood of recent studies not having made a conclusion regarding Billy's claim for reasons of political viability appears to be higher than that of recent studies not having made the conclusion for scientific reasons, as it was deemed methodological with studies predating certain political events.

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@sergio24m#12010 Oh, and by the way.. ancient greece did in fact support homosexuality, they even thought homosexual duos would do better in war because they care for their partner in more than one way.

Yeah, they supported doing it with little boys and teenagers. This does very little to make your case against homosexuality having no direct link with "pedophilia, being abused as a child, et cetera" as the historical situation you brought up in Ancient Greece involved pedophilia, accounts of children being abused, and modern interpretations of post-traumatic stress disorder being lumped in with the many effects of child sex abuse.

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@Darth#12024 Yes. If homosexuality was entirely influenced by society, we would not see it in other animals, which we do.

This argument implies that the behavior of other animals is not influenced by the societal decisions of humans. In any natural environment, "homosexuality" being exhibited by hermaphroditic organisms would contradict the biological imperative of that species and should not be considered as a validation of something that is fruitless. Animals also engage in infanticide and are known to exploit human environments to their advantage.

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@Darth#12024 Except STD's are not exclusive to homosexual encounters.

Sexually transmissible diseases are not exclusive to "homosexual" encounters however are much more prevalent among homosexuals. In the year 1982, seventy eight percent of homosexuals were recorded to have been affected by sexually transmitted diseases (see "The Homosexual Network," Rueda, E.) and the spread of AIDS, along with other immunodeficiency syndromes in the United States, can be partially attributed to the "exploration and experimenting" discussed in your post even though they only account for 1-3% of the population.

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@Darth#12024 If it doesn't involve anyone/anything illegal or that can't consent, I don't care.

Setting legality as a standard for whether or not you should care about something is a terrible idea. Laws are exploitable whereas moral standards do not contain ambiguities in their provisions, having derived from one's particular faith, although I am speaking only for myself in that regard.

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@Darth#12024 As for the theory that homosexuals are more likely to be child molesters, here is a page that reviews various scientific articles and claims, putting all the pieces together, and reaches the conclusion that homosexuality is not linked to pedophilia.

This statement does very little to disprove the notion that child molestation is prevalent among homosexuals. I had a first-had look at the website you looked and it is laughable in how it dismisses various reports. Various surveys were discredited for their antiquity, while others were thrown out on the basis that they were not "legitimate scientific studies" (despite the fact that "legitimate" studies tend to be even laughable) and one of the sources was claimed to not have been subject to a peer review, even though I could find an academic peer review in the category of "queer studies" with a simple online search.

When going to click on the blog of the person who published this site, it redirects you to "beyondhomophobia.org." The footer links consist of "hate crimes" and "sexual prejudice," among others. It goes without saying that this is not an unbiased source.

Going back to the topic of child molestation being prevalent among homosexuals, the idea that every scientific or academic study which has made this link is somehow flawed in its nature is absurd. A variety of studies have found that homosexuals constitute roughly one third (this figure varies marginally between each study, conceded or not) of child molesters. (K. Freund and R. J. Watson, "The Proportions of Heterosexual and Homosexual Pedophiles Among Sex Offenders Against Children: An Exploratory Study," Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy). It is also estimated that approximately eighty percent of children molested by pedophiles are boys who have been molested by adult males.

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@Wize#7707 In regards to what I meant by "thread replies", I was commenting on the current state of this forum's thread/thread-reply UI- A UI that is remarkably underwhelming. Thus, when I referred to the current state of these forum's thread-replies being "under-satisfying", I was commenting on them from the perspective of a player in this community.

Yes, I understand that your original post made reference to the user interface of thread replies, my point being that the "thread-reply" user interface of discussion boards should only exist to expedite the process of formatting and submitting that reply. The actual process of submitting a post does not vary between "player" (member) and moderator, so I fail to understand why there would be a great difference in overall satisfaction "from the perspective of [each position]."

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I've preached this before and now I will sing about it again, THE PERSPECTIVE OF AN OP CAN'T BE OVERLOOKED BY AN ADMIN, especially if TF hopes to have any glimmer of a player-base moving forward.

I hope you'll notice that I'm also an operator. Regardless, there have been many cases where operators have taken impractical or unrealistic "perspectives" while pushing them onto others. You should not be so quick to generalize.

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What's kept TF alive all these years [...] are its players that have some-way or another entwined themselves in the history that that "monolithic" forum had stood for.

This server's community has kept it alive, not an outdated forum which has proven unsuitable for that community. As for its players "being entwined in the history that [ProBoards] had stood for," that "monolithic forum" had stood for nothing more than an uncomfortable terms of service and years of neglect on behalf of its team. Flarum is an imperfect solution however provides a much better experience than ProBoards did.

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@Wize#7707 I mean seriously man, a "monolith of clutter", you fully offended everyone on here in three words, that's got to be a record or something.

I can't find these three words being used anywhere in my post.

Cluttering newer forums with features that were beloved on traditional sites purely for the fleeting nostalgia of "bringing back the old forum" does nothing to improve a site's user interface. In many aspects, this would only litter a forum software that has been simplified for lightweight platforms.

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@Wize#7684 Thread replies feel under-satisfying, there's no shout box or instant messaging.

Thread replies are "under-satisfying" because this server's community is used to short-witted replies of scanty discernment and favors expressing their viewpoints in anonymous polls. When members of this server create meaningful threads full of constructive replies, then you will feel the satisfaction of reading a worthwhile exchange of ideas. Discussion boards exist to bring people together and are not a substance of their own.

I don't feel the need for a "shoutbox" or tagboard when this community has a guild, which is always going to be more active than any forum's shoutbox would be. The old squawkbox was mainly used for verifying members of staff, and since this is now a premium server, what use would it conjure in the present?

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I've had extensive experience with Flarum and the good news is that with a little bit of love, these forums can truly be a new, refreshing chapter in TF's history.

I understand that I'm in the minority, but I prefer Flarum to this forum's previous software. Not only is it more readily accessible, however the board is cleaner, and categories are less pronounced. Discussions are less segregated, better fitting into the overall scale of this server. The old forum was too monolithic for a shrinking community, and I feel as if the stupor of nostalgia interferes with an understanding of how shitty the "user experience" on the old forum was.

Finally: please appreciate the distinction between a "forum" and multiple "forums."

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@Ashaz#7602 This is not a solution to the issues there are, which is that many OPs have their builds integrated into the terrains, such as in Fazbender Entertainment in the overworld. That is why Pyro is saying it's not possible to paste schematics. If you look at the Imperium as well, it's the same thing - many of the builds are designed for the specific areas of those terrains such as islands in the End and it cannot work unless the islands are copied too (which totals to an approximate 1 billion blocks).

Copying and pasting works which "integrate" into the terrain are manageable through ways described in your own post. I've saved projects as schematics which are much bigger than whatever is being described here, and that is accomplished through partitioning large builds into sections. Various sections can be copied and pasted across regions given their coordinate position be recorded and maintained.

Of course, this is tedious work. That being said, I've been told in a braggadocious tone that "the Imperium" is a faction of over one hundred members.

CoreProtect's block logging system has been unreliable for quite some time, and if players haven't been saving their projects as schematics, that would be to their own detriment. This has never been a good server for building.

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@wild1145#7577 you made a racist comment in the general discussion [...] You then were encouraging someone else who had also made a racist comment to continue doing so.

Foremost, you are referring to Shrimp, who did not make a "racist comment" however posted a video which contained the n-word ("soft r" as you call it). I did not say the n-word myself (or any variation of this word) and none of my posts contained anything which could be perceived as discriminatory.

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that along with all your chat history was wiped on ban due to the nature of the ban not to mention me re posting it here would violate the forum posting guidelines.

Because you decided to go over the heads of the administrators on your Discord server, this matter was improperly handled and no chat logs were archived of the incident. There is nothing to substantiate your claim of my messages having been "racist" beyond the weight of your perception.

Shrimp shouldn't have been banned, either. The video was clearly a joke, and even if it had warranted any punishment, it did not necessitate them being banned from the server.

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@wild1145#7564 The ban was a result of comments made that were in violation of the conduct policy and were encouraging others to do the same.

So what did I say that apparently "violated the conduct policy and encouraged others to do the same?" I don't remember making any remarks to that effect, nor do I recall encouraging others to do the same.

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@UnderTails#7554 It would take literal real world years to paste our entire base.

Selections can be pasted while discounting air blocks (-a) which is known to significantly improve the performance of block operations.

Stop being so dramatic. "Your" creation is not as monolithic as you believe it to be. Wasting space should not amount to grandiosity.

@simplynick#7544 I was recently given this information by Darth, and appreciate this post on your behalf.

As I still do not know what I did to warrant being banned from the guild, the circumstances of my ban appeal remain unchanged. When Wild decides to review my appeal, I will modify the original post to reflect a change in understanding.

1. grntbg#1685 / colloquially "fssp."
2. I don't know who banned me.
3. I was banned on the date of 2/7/21, less than two hours ago.
4. I'm not sure why I was banned. No reason had been given, and no prior warning was issued for anything.
5. See above.

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@chargenation1158#7486 you should probably lock this thread

I don't understand why it's necessary for approved reinstatement threads to be locked in the first place. Acidic is a returning old timer and several people may want to welcome them back, but haven't yet gotten the chance.

Welcome back.