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It's a bad faith argument. They don't care about pedophiles.

You're right. It's usually a teacher, neighbor, pastor, uncle, etc. "Stranger danger" is mostly BS unless you live in a really dangerous neighborhood, and there the risk is more likely to be simple robbery with incidental harm to the child.

Child sex abuse is also under-prosecuted and under-sentenced. Your average child rapist serves less time than people convicted of selling small amounts of drugs. It's really bad if the abuser is wealthy and can really put up a fight. Google Jeffrey Epstein's original indictment and the non-punishment he received.

If they really cared about child abusers they'd prosecute them more aggressively and sentence them more severely.



> [...] serves less time than people convicted of selling small amounts of drugs.

Did you mean to compare this to racial biased drug sentencing?




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