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Martin's avatar

Yeah. I am a little wary of this stuff too now. I remember laughing at the "moral panics" and "conspiracy theories" around the time that the paedophile episode of Brass Eye aired. Then it transpired that there actually were paedophile rings operating at high levels of various British institutions.

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I think we all want to believe no one could do that shit brazenly but I think being brazen about it is an evolved mechanism to go undetected because everyone thinks “surely if that’s was what it looked like, people would shut it down.” Then if you ever do realize you can’t forgive yourself for not having done something right away when it was obvious so you don’t say anything out of shame and guilt.

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