Dateline: To Catch A Predator

Originally posted by Robtard
Stupid assertion.

Originally posted by Robtard
If a grown man drives to a house where he know a 14 year old girl lives in order to have sex with her, how is it not completely his fault?

You're essentially arguing that the 14 year old being a little flirtatious **** online excuse the adult of doing wrong or some part of it.

It's not meant to show justice, they don't spend a great deal of time showing the trials and consequences of the actions of the people they catch. They are more interested in getting into the head of the pedophile and seeing why he did what he did.

well very little psychological ground is ever broken because usually the pedos think they're talking to some little girl's dad and the other half of the time they've seen the show and know they're on tv.. so in either case they aren't going to be completely honest and share their feelings at the time or reasoning as to why they did it. they know that's not the right time to explain pedo rhetoric on why if she can bleed she can ****, that's only going to cause them more problems at this point, so they revert to "i'm sorry/i don't know what i'm doing here/i've learned my lesson/i was just going to talk to her."

to me i dont watch it for justice or for psychology... i watch it because it's pretty intense television as creepy as it is and i think they produce a quality show. well i don't watch it so much any more.. but when i did it was the shit.

Some of them, particularly in the early shows, seemed to be pretty honest.

They've kinda hit a wall now that the show is quite popular, but before it was known, and before half of the pedo's knew they were on TV, they gave some interesting information.

well i can't say i've seen the whole series.. i mostly saw a marathon of it a while ago. it was interesting the excuses they'd come up with. but i can't say i saw one pedo that openly admitted to being a pedo. they all just happen to be in the 'wrong place wrong time' or 'made a stupid mistake.' i'm sure there are guys who just made one stupid mistake and acted on bad judgement.. but surely there has to be some actual predators out there? or maybe the real predators won't fall for these stings.

i might not have seen the older episodes.. the marathon i saw was only a couple months ago.

Originally posted by shiv
a friend of a friend was partying at a club, there was a girl invading his personal space all night.

They made out

He saw her a week later stepping off a school bus carrying a class of 15 year olds

He freaked out.

Your point?

He was deceived (I assume), as a 14 year old can't legally be in a club, these men are not deceived, they go to the house under the impression that a 14 year old is waiting for sex.

Originally posted by lord xyz
What you think it's a legit show that's for the purpose of seeing justice, rather than exposing all the people the audience hates/must hate? It's a show based on hate. That's how I see it.

When I was 14 one of my classmates had sex with an 18 year old, and she openly admitted it...of course, they met in person.

It is a legit show, as it's a show on television and the pedos are factually pedophiles or would-be pedophiles. Your initial assertion of "it's aimed at attracting hateful people etc. etc. etc." was what was stupid.

Okay? The 18 year old shouldn't have done that, at least from a legal standpoint.

Well, the guys that get caught are dumbasses. You'd think that they'd have enough reasoning to ask for a very specific picture to be taken before they started going anywhere...like a kissy face (with a sign) or a topless picture on a jet ski (OTF inside joke). If they don't produce the picture, it's either a sting, or it's another 30 year old man.

If they get caught, then they doubly deserve the humiliation.

Edit-I can see why they'd get caught. Only a dumbass would want to have sexual relations with an underage chica. And they get so excited that their reasoning goes out the window, but that assumes they had any to begin with.

Originally posted by Robtard
It is a legit show, as it's a show on television and the pedos are factually pedophiles or would-be pedophiles. Your initial assertion of "it's aimed at attracting hateful people etc. etc. etc." was what was stupid.

Okay? The 18 year old shouldn't have done that, at least from a legal standpoint.

But on the subject of the show, people's sick hatred towards paedos is the reason they watch it, to hate something so much you're happy to see people of that to be locked up and be traumatised themselves by being shown to be a sick ****, isn't right in my eyes. You should treat everyone with respect. It's like making a show about fat people who steal other people's food.

You make it out that these pedophiles are somehow forced into the situation. Make no mistake, they put themselves there, they do it to themselves. It's completely and utterly, 100% their fault for knowingly attempting to take advantage of a child, breaking the law in the process.

And so because 100 years ago there were laws that we deem as silly today, that means the laws of today can be broken? What is your point?

Originally posted by BackFire
What is your point?

Uhhh, does there ever need to be a point for any form of rape, statutory or otherwise?

pretty sure rape always has a point

Does someone choose to be a pedophile or are they a pedophile from birth or perhaps due to upbringing?

Originally posted by Grand_Moff_Gav
Does someone choose to be a pedophile or are they a pedophile from birth or perhaps due to upbringing?

I don't think anyone knows for sure but in most cases it's likely part of who they are from birth. However, some upbringings might make them more or less likely to molest children. At least some pedophiles seem to genuinely not want to be attracted to children but are anyway.

Originally posted by red g jacks
pretty sure rape always has a point

Uhh, I think you may be taking my post seriously.

^my bad

Originally posted by Grand_Moff_Gav
Does someone choose to be a pedophile or are they a pedophile from birth or perhaps due to upbringing?

as far as being a pedo from childhood... the only scenarios i could think of are

if you dont have a proper childhood and never really grow up so you identify more with children (mj syndrome)

or if you get molest as a kid and find the age difference appealing so when you get older you want to try it again with the roles reversed

Originally posted by Grand_Moff_Gav
Does someone choose to be a pedophile or are they a pedophile from birth or perhaps due to upbringing?

Whether or not they choose that they're attracted to children, who knows.

They choose to act on it, knowing full well that it's illegal, as it should be, so the responsibility is their's.

Originally posted by red g jacks
i imagine it's not just something you jump right into.

Why?

because most of us are raised to look at such behavior with disgust, so unless your childhood was completely ****ed there's probably a bit of wearing down before you decide it's ok to jack off to child porn.. and then eventually decide it's ok to recreate those scenes in real life..

Originally posted by red g jacks
because most of us are raised to look at such behavior with disgust, so unless your childhood was completely ****ed there's probably a bit of wearing down before you decide it's ok to jack off to child porn.. and then eventually decide it's ok to recreate those scenes in real life..

I don't know that a study has been done to connect child porn to child molesters. I've asked before but no one could find.