While I am unable to strongly come down on “the ends justifying the means” argument and I definitely understand what to say, yet in my own story (a long read above) I do wish in my heart of hearts, some one, in any way possible! That might have prevented my own suffering at the hands of my abuser, any way they could have.
Innocent children do not deserve to be out there, mostly alone and defenseless against such evil.
Good people often think they can or could “spot” a perp but the truth almost always is, they and we, simply do not!
Normal (mostly men) people simply are not so wired! It’s a special kind of “wiring” that does seem to have been loosed on society by instant access of their perversion on the web.
Some people so wired, might just have had deep dark thoughts of sex with children but never acted on it for fear of being exposed to society, punished and being outcast forever. Today, it’s a different story.
The fact you said something about “the end justifies the means” in your response tells me you understood where I was comin from. Yes these folks are a blithe on society but all I could picture is someone on the other end of the phone enticing this guy into committing... where other wise he may have just sat back in hiding and never do anything in fear of, as you said above, being exposed etc etc... like in the old days.
im any event sorry to hear you had some bad times...
Great points again. My reason for posting, as i said before, condemning somebody for evil, that i somehow associated myself with... in this case a poorly chosen screen name 14 years ago for a political forum. It is also a great point in that these are regular people, alot of times people that a whole bunch of people look up to as role model status (not this guy specifically) just meaning people NOBODY would expect.