>>4658158 (LB)
In my case I was "raped" (I was loved and treated tenderly by older young women when I was about 10), and then spent an active precocious sexual life as a kid.
I have been trained by Jesuit discipline in spirituality and mental fortitude, we learn to dance with the devil because we have the LIFELINE OF CHRIST.
Because of that, I have been able to delve well deep into the pit, and be seldomly shocked, but only confronted with my own history and human nature.
You do not become a cover agent for a drug cartel investigation if you do not know how to do drugs and survive them.
Know the limits of your depravity and keep Christ at your heart, HE will guide you to the best department of research for your own personal nature.
I am happy to having identified locations of victims found in some dark corners. And at some point…
To quote Nietzsche like you did:
"The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer."
But then again CHRIST is your LIFELINE.
My TouchStone is Saint Augustine:
"8. What I have said so far applies to actions that are similar. When they are different, we find people made fierce by love; and by wickedness made seductively gentle. A father beats a boy, while a kidnapper caresses him. Offered a choice between blows and caresses, who would not choose the caresses and avoid the blows? But when you consider the people who give them you realize that it is love that beats, wickedness that caresses. This is what I insist upon: human actions can only be understood by their root in love. All kinds of actions might appear good without proceeding from the root of love. Remember, thorns also have flowers: some actions seem truly savage, but are done for the sake of discipline motivated by love. Once and for all, I give you this one short command: love, and do what you will. If you hold your peace, hold your peace out of love. If you cry out, cry out in love. If you correct someone, correct them out of love. If you spare them, spare them out of love. Let the root of love be in you: nothing can spring from it but good. …"
Again, in Nietzsche's words:
"LOVE IS BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL"
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One who loves wants the best for the Beloved.
This is really profound Alchemy, to turn your lead into gold.
Just in case another one has the chance to cross near the corners where humans are trafficked and are able to call an authority.